Turkey and Turkmenistan signed eight deals on Saturday during President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the Central Asian country to attend the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit, with leaders reiterating their aim to further strengthen relations.
Erdoğan and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov met at the Oguzhan Palace in the capital Ashgabat for a bilateral meeting, which was followed by the signing ceremony.
The agreements were concerned with cooperation between Turkish and Turkmen foreign ministries, central banks, public broadcasters and official news agencies, health and medicine, education and horse breeding.
Following the ceremony, Erdoğan told a joint press conference that the two countries are determined to increase their trade volume to $5 billion.
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