Colombia–Turkey relations

Colombia-Turkey relations (Spanish: Relaciones Colombia-Turquía; Turkish: Kolombiya-Türkiye ilişkileri) are foreign relations between Colombia and Turkey. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established in 1959.[1]

Colombia-Turkey relations

Colombia
Turkey

Country comparison
 Colombia  Turkey
Population 50,372,424 83,154,997
Area 1,141,748 km2 (440,831 sq mi) 783,356 km2 (302,455 sq mi)
Population density 42.23/km2 (109.4/sq mi) 105/km2 (271.9/sq mi)
Capital Bogotá Ankara
Government Unitary presidential constitutional republic Unitary presidential constitutional republic
Current Leader President Iván Duque Márquez
Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez		 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Vice President Fuat Oktay
Official languages Spanish Turkish
Main religions 88.6% Christian, 9.6% No religion 97.6% Islam, 1.1% Judaism, 0.3% Christianity
Ethnic groups 87.58% White, 10.8% Afro-Colombians 85% Turkish, 9% Kurdish 6% Others
Human Development Index (HDI) 0.761 (high)[2] — 42nd 0.806 (very high)[3] — 59th
GDP (PPP) $827.662 billion ($16,264 per capita) $2.464 trillion[4] ($29,326 per capita)

Both countries had the first interaction at the presidential level in 2011.[5] The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made a visit to Turkey in 2011 while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Colombia on 10 February 2015.[5]

Colombia had a commercial volume with Turkey of US$997 million in 2014.[6] Colombia receives a sixth of Turkey's exports in Latin America, being the third country in terms of bilateral trade volume. Colombia and Turkey signed an agreement for trade cooperation in 2006.[5] The negotiations for the signing of a free trade agreement also continued. Turkish Petroleum International Company at the Regional Office for South America began operations in 2008 in Bogotá. The visa requirement between the two countries was abolished in 2012.[7]

Turkey has an embassy in Bogotá (since 2010) while Colombia has an embassy in Ankara (since 2011).[5]

Visits
Guest Host Place of visit Date of visit
President Juan Manuel Santos President Abdullah Gül Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara November 18, 2011
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President Juan Manuel Santos Casa de Nariño, Bogotá February 10, 2015

See also

References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20141226085204/http://www.cancilleria.gov.co/international/regions/europe/union/non-member/turkey
  2. "2019 Human Development Index Ranking | Human Development Reports". hdr.undp.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  3. "List of countries by Human Development Index", Wikipedia, 2020-04-24, retrieved 2020-05-02
  4. "International Monetary Fund, Report on selected countries". imf.org. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
  5. http://www.mfa.gov.tr/turkiye-kolombiya-siyasi-iliskileri.tr.mfa https://web.archive.org/web/20160402203527/http://www.mfa.gov.tr/turkiye-kolombiya-siyasi-iliskileri.tr.mfa
  6. http://www.deik.org.tr/6007/KOLOMB%C4%B0YA_%C4%B0LE_T%C3%9CRK%C4%B0YE_N%C4%B0N_2023_ORTAK_HEDEF%C4%B0_5_M%C4%B0LYAR_DOLAR.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150318132411/http://deik.org.tr/6007/KOLOMB%C4%B0YA_%C4%B0LE_T%C3%9CRK%C4%B0YE_N%C4%B0N_2023_ORTAK_HEDEF%C4%B0_5_M%C4%B0LYAR_DOLAR.html
  7. http://turizmgazetesi.com/news.aspx?id=68242
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