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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov in an official ceremony in Türkiye’s capital Ankara on Thursday.
Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat, and Erdoğan’s chief advisor Akif Çağatay Kılıç were present at a closed-door meeting.
No further information was provided about the meeting.
Kazakhstan is one of Türkiye’s key economic and political allies in Central Asia as Ankara strives to boost cooperation with Turkic states in the region. In 2009, the two countries signed a strategic partnership agreement and later, set up a high-level strategic cooperation council.
In time, trade volume increased between countries while Turkish investments in Kazakhstan proliferated, particularly in the construction sector. Kazakhstan has also been host to talks on Türkiye’s neighbor Syria as countries seek a peaceful resolution to civil war in the country.
Türkiye has sought closer ties with Turkic-speaking Central Asian states such as Kazakhstan since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.
In 2009, Türkiye and Kazakhstan signed a “Strategic Partnership Agreement” which resulted in Türkiye becoming one of the most important political and economic partners of Kazakhstan in the region.
Bilateral relations between the two countries include various aspects such as trade, investment, culture, tourism, health, education and military issues, all of which are fields of cooperation developed on the basis of mutual benefit.
