Turkey supports the Three Seas Initiative



Turkey supports the Three Seas Initiative, in particular in the field of strategic security in the region of the Black Sea. Ankara defines the partnership with Poland as strategic one.


Recent meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of Poland and Turkey Zbigniew Rau and Mevlut Cavusoglu seals good relations between both states. Mutual trade exchange amounts to as much as 6 billion eur and it will soon increase by even 1/3. Turkey is for Poland the most important economic partner in the Near East.

Turkey also supports investments in the north-south road corridor. Development of communication routes is particularly important for the development of the Three Seas Initiative and opens new prospects between the states of the region. Both countries, together with Romania, cooperate in the field of security in the area of the Black Sea. Turkey supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine and opposes Russian expansion. Recent settlements concerned cooperation of secret intelligence of Poland and Turkey. Ankara has declared support in monitoring migration routes from the Near East. Turkey could stop one of the threads of the Belarussian operation “Floodgate” as some migrants heading from the near East to Belarus change in Istanbul. Source: trimarium.pl

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