​Overview

• • Establishment of Diplomatic Relations : March 8, 1957
  • Bilateral Trade (2023) : $ 10,430 million
    • Exports : $ 8,990 million (Synthetic resin, Petrochemical synthetic raw materials, Automotive parts)
    • Imports : $ 1,440 million (Medical products, Automotive Parts, Fabric Cloth)
  • Bilateral Investment
    • ROK's investment in Türkiye: $ 4,230 million(~2023)
    • Türkiye investment in the ROK: $ 113 million(~2023)
  • Number of Koreans living in Türkiye(2023) : about 2,697
  • High-level Exchanges
    • From the ROK to Türkiye
      • 1977  May Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah
      • 1990  July Prime Minister Kang Young-hoon
      • 1995  December Deputy Minister for Policy Planning Ban Ki-moon
      • 1996  May Prime Minister Lee Soo-sung
      • 1999  November Minister of Foreign Affairs Hong Soon-young
      • 2004  April Minister of Foreign Affairs Ban Ki-moon
      • 2005  April President Roh Moo-hyun
      • 2007  April President of the Constitutional Court Lee Kang-kook
      • 2008  January Minister of Education, Science and Technology Kim Shin-il
      • 2008  July Minister of National Defense Lee Sang-hee
      • 2008  December Prime Minister Han Seung-soo
      • 2009  January Speaker of the National Assembly Kim Hyung O
      • 2009  March Prime Minister Han Seung-soo
      • 2010  March Minister for Trade Kim Jong-hoon
      • 2012  January Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Kim Sung-hwan
      • 2012  Feburary President Lee Myung-bak
      • 2013  August Prime Minister Chung Hong-won
      • 2013  October Speaker of the National Assembly Kang Chang-hee
      • 2013  November Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court Yang Sung-tae
      • 2014  April President of the Constitutional Court Park Han-chul
      • 2014  August Minister of Foreign Affairs Yun Byung-se
      • 2014  November Prosecutor General Kim Jin-tae
      • 2015  March Chair of Korea-Türkiye Inter-Parliamentary Group, Lee Han-gu
      • 2015  April Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, Park sungchoon
      • 2016  May Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn(World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul)
      • 2017  March Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Kang Ho-in
      • 2017  September Speaker of the National Assembly, Chung Sye-Kyun(MIKTA Speakers' Consultation)
      • 2017  October Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Kim Hyun-mee
      • 2018  March Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly, Park Joo-Sun
      • 2018  August Minister of National Defense, Song Young-moo
      • 2018  October Speaker of the National Assembly, Moon Hee-sang(Meeting of Speakers of Eurasian Countries' Parliaments)
      • 2021  August Speaker of the National Assembly, Park Byeong-seug
      • 2022  March Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum
      • 2022  March Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, Hwang Ki-chul
      • 2023  July Minister of Foreign Affairs Park Jin
    • From Türkiye to the ROK
      • 1958  Prime Minister Adnan Menderes
      • 1976  June Minister of Foreign Affairs Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil
      • 1979  May Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Gunduz Okcun
      • 1982  December President Kenan Evren
      • 1986  November Prime Minister Turgut Ozal
      • 1991  May Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut
      • 2004  February Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
      • 2008  October Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim
      • 2010  October President Gül
      • 2010  November Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
      • 2011  May Speaker of the National Assembly Sahin
      • 2012  March Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Nuclear Security Summit)
      • 2014  September Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Kadir Topbas
      • 2014  October Speaker of the National Assembly Cemil Cicek
      • 2015  February Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci
      • 2015  May Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu
      • 2017  December Prime Minister Binali Yildirim
      • 2018  May President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
      • 2021  October Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

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