Last Updated on 11/03/2023
To strengthen its ties and boost its cooperative relations with Algeria, Turkiye decided the opening of a General Consulate in Oran city in Northwest Algeria. This news was announced by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the Turkish minister of Foreign affairs.
Turkey will establish a general consulate in Northwest Algeria
Turkiye’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, stated on Monday that the country would establish a general consulate in Oran, which is located in northwest Algeria.
He also declared at a conference in the Turkish capital Ankara that with this initiative, Turkiye tends to tighten the relationships for very important investment plans.
Turkiye’s recent diplomatic initiatives
Speaking about recent Turkish diplomatic efforts, Çavuşoğlu claimed that Algeria and Ankara have “extremely excellent relations.” Moreover, he mentioned that with 257 missions, Turkiye has the fifth-largest diplomatic network in the world. He added that Turkiye’s Africa initiative evolved into a partnership policy and that in the previous 20 years, commerce with the continent expanded from $3.4 billion to almost $35 billion. He also stated that regarding Turkiye and the evolution of international diplomacy, Ankara is engaged all over the world due to its “entrepreneurial and humanistic” foreign policy.
Turkiye aims to strengthen its relations with Algeria
New agreements signed in May 2022 between Turkiye and Algeria
The Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had a visit to Ankara in May. During this visit, Turkiye and Algeria inked a number of new agreements as they work to expand their bilateral ties and bolster cooperation, with an emphasis on the defense industry in particular.
Following one-on-one discussions and meetings between their delegations, Erdoğan and Tebboune observed the signing of bilateral agreements in several sectors, including mining and environment as well as education and culture.
The two presidents talked about how to advance their shared interests in global issues as well as bilateral collaboration. They also discussed enhancing their collaboration in other crucial areas like security, agriculture, and tourism.
Tebboune’s visit to Turkiye was the country’s first by a president since the late Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s 2005 visit. To strengthen ties, the two countries signed accords of friendship and cooperation in 2006.
We would like to remind that Turkish embassy in Algiers opened right after Algeria’s independence in 1963.
Economy partners
Turkiye considers Algeria as the region’s island of political and economic stability and its main business partner in Africa. Accordingly, there are almost 1,000 Turkish companies operating in Algeria with an investment volume of 3.5 billion dollars. Moreover, with a total trade volume of 4.5 billion dollars, Algeria is Turkiye’s 23rd largest export market and 25th largest source of imported products. Meanwhile, Turkiye ranks as Algeria’s sixth-largest economic partner with oil and gas-related products as Algeria’s top exports. Furthermore, Turkey is the source of Algeria’s largest imports of building supplies.
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