President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom.
During the conversation, steps aimed at improving Türkiye-UK relations in many areas, including trade, tourism, defence, agriculture, services, investments, and the fight against COVID-19, as well as regional issues, were discussed.
Noting that Türkiye is ready to host the Turkish-British Tatlıdil Forum in the second half of this year as the pandemic conditions ameliorate, President Erdoğan expressed his belief that the tourism season would open in April in a barrier-free and safe manner.
Underlining that the Free Trade Agreement the two countries signed on December 29, 2020, constitutes a new milestone in their bilateral relations, President Erdoğan added that the steps to be taken accordingly would facilitate the achievement of the 20 billion dollars target in bilateral trade volume.
President Erdoğan said that Türkiye appreciates the steps taken recently by the United Kingdom on the Cyprus issue and that the two-state solution would lead to a "win-win" situation in terms of new regional cooperation opportunities not only for the two sides on the island but for all.
President Erdoğan stated that Turkey continued to display a constructive stance in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean as well as in Cyprus and that Türkiye preserved its calm stance and its determination to continue exploratory talks despite Greece's provocative acts and discourse.