Foreign relations of Kazakhstan

During their meeting, the Ministers reaffirmed their common will and determination to further develop coordination

Turkey and Kazakhstan on Feb. 4 discussed opportunities to strengthen cooperation in the defense industry sector. 

In a statement, Kazakhstan's Defense Ministry said Turkey's Deputy National Defense Minister Muhsin Dere met with Kazakhstan's Defense Minister Nurlan Yermekbayev as part of a two-day working visit to Kazakhstan.

Medical supplies sent by Turkey arrived in Kazakhstan on May 11 to help fight the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Turkey sent 150,000 face masks and sanitizers, said a statement by the Turkish Embassy in Nur Sultan.

"We believe that medical supplies will support our Kazakh friends in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak, which has become a global threat," the embassy added.

The Turkic Council held a senior officials meeting at the level of deputy foreign ministers in Istanbul on Aug. 2, where they discussed opening of a representation office in Hungary.

The 13th round of talks on Syria kicked off in the capital of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, on Aug 1, with bilateral and trilateral talks between officials from Iran, Russia and Turkey - the three main Astana guarantors.

Officials from Turkey, Russia, and Iran met on April 25 in the Kazakh capital Nursultan to discuss technical issues around ongoing talks between the three nations to find a settlement to the Syrian crisis.         

Right now, in modern circumstances where there are heightened tensions among the global players, for Kazakhstan, the biggest challenge we see is to contribute to the reduction of these tensions among these key-players, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Roman Vassilenko told AGERPRES in an interview.

Russia, Turkey, and Iran will hold the next round of talks on Syria on Nov. 28-29 in the Kazakh capital Astana, Kazakh foreign minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said on Nov. 19.

Turkish and Kazakh aviation firms signed a cooperation deal in the Kazakh capital Astana on May 24 during an international exhibition. 

Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov will pay an official visit to Turkey between April 18 and April 20, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced in a statement.