The agreement came during a teleconferencing call between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro late Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy expanding its scope, we aim for this agreement to be turned into a free trade agreement as soon as possible,\u201d Erdogan told.<\/p>\n
The leaders also discussed bilateral ties and regional issues. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci also took part in the call.<\/p>\n
During the call, Erdogan expressed his pleasure at improving bilateral relations in fields such as the economy, trade, agriculture, energy, culture, and education.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very glad to see our trade volume in the first three months of 2018 topped a half-billion dollars. I believe this figure will reach $2 billion by the end of the year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Erdogan also expressed his happiness at Maduro attending Friday\u2019s extraordinary summit in Istanbul of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.<\/p>\n
The Venezuelan leader also attended last year’s OIC extraordinary summit in Istanbul on the issue of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI openly expressed that we support all the Muslim countries and Palestine, especially in light of what has happened in Palestine recently,\u201d said Maduro, for his part.<\/p>\n
He also wished Erdogan success in the June 24 general elections, saying: \u201cJune 24 is a historic day for Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Venezuelan president also said Turkish Airline\u2019s Caracas-Istanbul flights will further improve ties between the two countries.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turkey and Venezuela have signed an agreement to boost bilateral trade between the two countries in a conference call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,34,101,14],"tags":[12897,77182,77975,11497],"class_list":["post-60880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-politics","category-world","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-airline","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}