Turkey and Qatar partnered up on a wide range of occasions at the sixth meeting of the Turkey-Qatar Supreme Strategic Committee jointly chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the Presidential Complex in Ankara in late November.
During the meeting, the two countries inked a number of new agreements, including:
- Sales of a 42 percent stake at Istanbul’s IstinyePark, one of the top luxury shopping malls in Turkey, to Qatar Holding LLC.
- An MoU for a potential joint investment in the “Made in Istanbul Golden Horn Project”, a waterway project to connect the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara.
- Sales of a 10 percent stake at Borsa Istanbul to the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA).
- Sales of Port Akdeniz in the Mediterranean province of Antalya to QTerminals, a Qatari commercial port operating company.
- An MoU for joint promotion activities between Turkey’s Ministry of Trade and the Qatar Free Zone Authority (QFZA).
- Joint declaration on the establishment of a trade commission between Turkey’s Ministry of Trade and Qatar’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
- An MoU for teaming on water management.
- And MoU on enhanced economic and financial cooperation between Turkey’s Ministry of Finance and Treasury and Qatar’s Ministry of Finance.
- An MoU on cooperation between Turkey and Qatar in areas relating to family, women, and social services.
- An MoU on the exchange of diplomats between the Diplomacy Academy of Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Diplomatic Institute of Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Source: invest.gov.tr
