On December 15, during his meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov thanked the Minister for the meeting and the opportunity to exchange opinions on the current state of relations between two republics.
Minnikhanov said that today's meetings with representatives of the Hayat holding, Gebze Organized Industrial Zone, the ERG Insaat company and the Turkish Airlines were very productive. He said that he hopes that the Turkey-Tatarstan business forum will foster further development of trade and economic relations and asked Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to convey his complements to all the Ministry's officers for their assistance in arranging meetings with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci and other Turkish officials.
Summing up, Minnikhanov wished Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu every success in his work and invited him to visit Tatarstan during his working trip to Russia.