Turkey wants to be priority market, destination for Chinese investors, tourists

Turkey is actively strengthening economic ties with China in a range of fields including agricultural exports, investment and tourism seeing there's much greater potential than the existing level of trade between the two countries, said Turkish officials.

Turkey's ambassador to China Abdulkadir Emin Onen said both of the two countries can cooperate in a larger sense than what the existing trade relations offer right now.

"We need to enhance these relations in terms of the trade volume, all cultural exchanges and people to people ties at every bilateral level," Onen said during a recent interview in Beijing. "We will continue our efforts to deepen our strategic cooperation with China in order to make Turkey a priority market and destination for Chinese investors and tourists and turn China into a primary market for Turkish exporters."