Erdogan renews threat to freeze Swedish, Finnish NATO bids

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday renewed his threat to "freeze" the NATO membership bids of both Sweden and Finland unless the military alliance complies with Ankara's conditions. At a NATO summit in Madrid at the end of June, Erdogan called on the two countries to "do their part" in

BGMEA finds scope for boosting Bangladesh-Turkey trade

Bangadesh and Turkey have considerable scope for reaping mutual trade benefits by deepening collaboration and cooperation, a press release said Sunday. The optimism was expressed when Ambassador of Turkey to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan paid a courtesy call on BGMEA President Faruque Hassan at the latter’s office in Gulshan on

Turkey resumes passenger flights with Dhaka

Turkey resumed its passenger flights with Bangladesh on Saturday, after nearly nine weeks of suspension. According to the Turkish Embassy in Dhaka, passengers will now be able to board the flights of Turkish Airlines and that of others to travel from Bangladesh to Turkey. The passengers travelling from Bangladesh will have to

Turkey showing interest to deepen trade relations

Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey Mosud Mannan in an interview with The News Times said that the highest political leaderships of Bangladesh and Turkey have been putting emphasis on further strengthening trade and economic relations between the two countries to increase the total volume of trade to US 2 billion dollars