China–Turkey relations

Turkey and China will focus on joint investments and cooperation, said Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak currently visiting China. Albayrak met with Director of China National Energy Administration Nur Bekri in Beijing March 23.

Turkey's former president Abdullah Gül has stressed the need to develop a new approach in the country's foreign policy which will take into account both history and current developments in politics, daily Hürriyet has reported.

Devlet Bahçeli, head of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), blamed Turkey's foreign policy, while commenting on the bomb attack in Ankara, which claimed at least 95 lives, on Oct. 10. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for talks in Beijing on July 29, in a visit expected to cover trade ties, missile defense program bargaining and spat over the Asian giant?s Uighur minority. 

Turkey's importance has increased in the eyes of China but a lack of trust as a result of a large information deficit continues to be the main problem obstructing the full potential of bilateral ties, according to Umut Ergunsü, a young academic living in China The main problem between Turkey and China is a lack of communication, lack of knowledge about each other and a corresponding lack

Once in a while, the nationalists in Turkey show too much interest in a chronic problem. The latest such issue is the situation of Turkic Uighurs living in China?s Xinjiang region and the supposed restrictions on the Muslim minority to observe the holy month of Ramadan.

The head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has raised some eyebrows by saying both Chinese and Koreans "have slanted eyes" while touching on attacks on Chinese people in Turkey to protest the alleged abuse of Uighurs in Xinjiang/East Turkestan.

China has warned its citizens traveling in Turkey to be careful of anti-Beijing protests, in the wake of several attacks on tourists and restaurants mistaken for being Chinese in Istanbul.

The notice, posted on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on July 5, said there have recently been "multiple" demonstrations in Turkey targeting the Chinese government. 

?President Abdullah Gül did not approve the government?s foreign policy, especially on Syria and Egypt. He thought that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdo?an and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu had gone too far by acting as if they were the prime minister and foreign minister of Egypt and Syria, which was against Turkey?s best interests.

ANKARA - Serbia and Turkey are ready to strengthen their cooperation and Serbia-Turkey relations are hugely important for the region, Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu noted on Tuesday.