TURKEY’S RELATIONS WITH INDONESIA: DEEPENING PARTNERSHIP
TURKEY’S RELATIONS WITH INDONESIA: DEEPENING PARTNERSHIP

Summary/Abstract: Turkey and Indonesia have continued to develop cordial relations with each other since Indonesia attained independence. The fact that both of these countries possess Muslim majority populations and that both countries’ political goals and policies exhibit major similarities has constituted the necessary basis for close and friendly relations. Furthermore, it is expected that Turkey and Indonesia will be among the top 10 economies of the world within 20 years. Thus, Indonesia is a very important country for Turkey in terms of trade partnership. However, this mutual friendship and political closeness has not been sufficiently backed by economic, cultural and social ties. Thus, bilateral economic relations remained very weak up until the beginning of the 2000s. In this respect, this study has two primary aims; first, to compile a comprehensive reading of the major occurrences in bilateral relations from the 1950s until today; and second, to propose a roadmap that will strategically guide the future development of Turkish- Indonesian bilateral relations.

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