Today, Turkish Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci and Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov opened the Turkish-Tatarstan Business Forum in Ankara. From the Tatarstan delegation, the forum was attended by Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Valeyev, representatives of mechanical engineering, petrochemical sectors, and other executives.
Turkey is one of the leading foreign partners of Tatarstan in the field of trade, economic and investment cooperation. Tatarstan is accounted for one-fifth of aggregate Turkish investment in Russia (US$ 2 billion from US$ 10 billion).
The Tatarstan President expressed his confidence that Turkish investors should be interested in the sites of SEZ Alabuga and SEZ Innopolis, the Territory of Outstripping Social and Economic Development in Naberezhnye Chelny, InnoKam production cluster, Sviyazhsk Interregional Multimodal Logistics Centre, and construction of Moscow-Kazan high-speed rail and the Europe-West China international transport corridor.
The plenary meeting of the Turkey-Tatarstan Business Forum has ended with the signing of the Agreement on Cooperation between KBS Corporation (Republic of Turkey) and the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency, the Memorandum of Understanding between the Tatarstan Ministry of Economy and the Gebze Organized Industrial Zone, and the Scientific Cooperation Agreement between the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences and the Council for Scientific and Technology Research of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).
(According to the Tatarstan Presidential Press Service)