Erdoğan’s trip bolsters Türkiye-Croatia economic ties

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Croatia on Thursday has further deepened the bilateral relations and strengthened the economies of the two countries.

Croatia marked Erdoğan’s last stop on a three-day tour of the Balkans that took him earlier this week to Bosnia-Herzegovina and then Serbia.

Türkiye and Croatia are allies with “deep-rooted” historical and cultural ties, although the countries do not share common borders, Erdoğan told a news conference alongside his Croatian counterpart Zoran Milanovic in the capital Zagreb.

“Our bilateral trade volume surpassed the pre-pandemic level and reached $900 million (TL 16.4 billion), recovering strongly last year,” he said, stressing that they want to double the figure in the coming period and then exceed $5 billion.