Tehran, YJC. Erdogan is going to travel to Iran in about one month
Iran said on Saturday that it plans to sign 12 cooperation
agreement with Turkey during the upcoming visit to Tehran by Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The Iranian Communications and Information Technology Minister
Mahmoud Vaezi said the agreements mostly address cooperation between Iran and
Turkey over energy, trade, health, transportation, and customs relations.
In January 2014, Iran and Turkey signed a preferential trade
agreement with the goal of boosting bilateral trade.
125 items of Iranian goods and 140 items of Turkish goods
will be traded according to the preferential agreement.
The trade balance between Iran and Turkey in the first half
of 2014 stood at $6.5 billion, according to data released by Turkish
Statistical Institute.
He said the outlines of the agreements have been finalized
in meetings with the visiting Turkish Minister of Development and the Turkish
President’s Special Aide Cevdet Yilmaz.
Yilmaz and the Iranian communications minister have been
appointed by the Turkish and Iranian presidents for coordinating Erdoğan’s
visit to Tehran.