From October 20 to 25, 2024, a delegation of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan is on a working visit to the Republic of Türkiye to participate in a meeting of the Turkmen-Turkish Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group.
On October 22, a meeting of the Turkmen-Turkish Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group was held. The parties exchanged views on the agenda and prospects for bilateral partnership. As noted, parliamentary dialogue has become an important part of deepening cooperation between Turkmenistan and Türkiye. Parliamentary friendship groups created on a bilateral basis increase opportunities for exchanging experience in legislative activity and developing parliamentary diplomacy.
Along with this, parliamentarians considered issues of improving the work of parliamentary friendship groups, establishing ties between specialized committees and organizing mutual visits of parliamentary delegations.
During the visit, the delegation of Turkmenistan also held a number of bilateral meetings with the Chairman of the Office for Diaspora Affairs and Compatriots Abroad under the Government of the Republic of Türkiye Abdullah Eren and with the heads of the relevant committees of the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Türkiye – Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Fuat Oktay and Chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee Suleyman Soylu.
During the meetings, the special importance attached by the two states to strengthening inter-parliamentary ties, which directly contribute to fruitful interstate dialogue in all areas, was noted. The parties expressed confidence that the intensification of the inter-parliamentary dialogue will directly serve the progressive expansion of multifaceted cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Türkiye, strengthening the ties of friendship between the peoples of the two countries.
Along with this, on October 23, a meeting of deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye Nuh Yilmaz was held.
During the meeting, the current state and prospects for strengthening interstate relations and issues of expanding bilateral cooperation in the political, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian spheres were discussed.
