Trade deal to boost Turkey-UK strategic partnership: British envoy
Published 11 Jan,2021 via Hürriyet Daily News - A free trade deal (FTA) signed between Turkey and the United Kingdom will help the two allied nations to create a strategic partnership with effects beyond trade and economy, the British envoy to Ankara has said, informing that Ankara and London have also agreed to negotiate on a more ambitious and comprehensive agreement.
“All those factors strengthen bilateral relations, and other things being equal, contribute towards creating a strategic, as opposed to transactional, partnership. So the consequences of our new FTA and the phase 2 FTA in future won’t stop at trade or the economy, although they will, self-evidently, be very important for them,” British Ambassador Sir Dominick Chilcott has told the Hürriyet Daily News in an exclusive interview.
The FTA between the two countries was signed on the last days of 2020, immediately after the U.K. and the European Union compromised on a trade and cooperation agreement to avoid a no-deal Brexit.
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