Türkiye and Hungary take pleasure in “extensive” relations based mostly on their deep-rooted ties, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned Sunday.
“We have extensive relations with Hungary based on deep-rooted and solid friendship ties. We are making significant progress in all areas of our relations,” Erdoğan mentioned on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter.
Erdoğan paid a one-day go to to the capital Budapest for Hungary’s National Day celebrations and likewise the World Athletics Championships.
“Our bilateral trade volume reached $3.5 billion in 2022, an all-time high. We believe that we will reach our target of a $6 billion trade volume in a short time through joint efforts,” he mentioned.
The president wished that his go to will likely be useful to additional enhance bilateral relations.
During his go to, Erdoğan individually met together with his Hungarian counterpart Katalin Novak and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to debate bilateral ties in addition to regional and world developments.
The Turkish chief additionally attended a reception to mark Hungary’s National Day and greeted residents, who demonstrated their love for him.
Erdoğan later watched the World Athletics Championships males’s 100 meters last on the National Athletics Centre stadium, the place he had conversations together with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
On the sidelines, Erdoğan additionally met individually together with his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Bosnian Serb chief Milorad Dodik, who’s president of the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia, and Zeljka Cvijanovic, a Serb member of the tripartite collective Bosnian presidency. They mentioned bilateral ties and regional and world points.
Relations between Türkiye and Hungary have been elevated to the extent of a strategic partnership in 2013 after the institution of the High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council. The pleasant ties have gained momentum in each discipline in recent times.
This December, the 2 international locations are set to rejoice the one centesimal anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations.
Source: www.anews.com.tr