THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF TURKISH-CHINESE FRIENDSHIP
China Daily News & Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul exchanged congratulatory messages on the 40th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations on August 2, 2011
In his message, Hu said since China and Turkey forged diplomatic ties 40 years ago, bilateral relations have enjoyed steady development with frequent high-level exchanges, increasing political trust, deepening pragmatic cooperation, fruitful people-to-people and cultural exchanges and close communication and coordination in international and regional affairs. China values the traditional friendship with Turkey and attaches importance to the development of China-Turkey relations, Hu said. Taking the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties as an opportunity, Hu said, China is willing to work with Turkey to turn a new chapter in the China-Turkey friendship by maintaining all-level personnel exchanges, deepening mutually beneficial cooperation, broadening cultural exchanges and together safeguarding the interests of developing countries.
Gul said in his message that China is Turkey's important partner with great international influence and economic strength. Turkey would like to advance bilateral ties from a long-term and strategic perspective. In 2010, the two countries upgraded bilateral ties to strategic relationship of cooperation, which was in the interest of the two peoples, Gul said. Turkey and China have great cooperative potential. Turkey is willing to explore and use such potential to push forward bilateral ties under the framework of the strategic relationship of cooperation, Gul said.
On the same day, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao also exchanged congratulatory messages with his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Wen said since the establishment of diplomatic ties 40 years ago, China-Turkey friendly cooperative relations have been developing continuously with the joint efforts of both sides. The establishment of the China-Turkey strategic relationship of cooperation in October 2010 demonstrated bilateral ties had entered a new phase. China is willing to make joint efforts with Turkey to move forward bilateral relations.
Erdogan said in his message both countries have long history and splendid culture. Over the past four decades, both sides have been committed to advancing bilateral ties in order to safeguard common interests of both peoples. It is a common task of both countries to uplift the level of bilateral cooperation on the basis of long-term, robust and all-dimension strategic cooperation.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also exchanged congratulatory messages with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu.
HISTORY
China and Turkey established diplomatic relations on August 4, 1971. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Sino-Turkish relations have been developing smoothly. Especially, since 1980s, the exchanges between the two countries have been increased and the relations have developed rapidly. Turkish leaders who visited China are President Evren (December 1982), Prime Minister Ozal (July 1985), Speaker of the Grand National Assembly Karaduman (October 1985), President Demirel (May 1995) and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly Kalemuli (August 1996). Chinese leaders who visited Turkey are President Li Xiannian (March, 1984), Premier Zhao Ziyang (July, 1986), Chairman of the Eighth Standing Committee of National People's Congress Qiao Shi (November, 1996) and Chairman of the Ninth Standing Committee of National People's Congress Li Peng (April, 1999), In April 2002, Premier Zhu Rongji of the State Council of China visited Turkey.
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@edcboatman That's bz stupid Turks don't have a good self-assessment. The history is like this: when you are defeated you are defeated. If you want to recapture your past glories and put that in your mind all the time, you might be crushed by reality a hard way. Chinese crushed you in far past and also in near history about 60 yrs ago in Korea when you sided yourself with dozens of other countries altogether. Accept reality and think about how to deal with yr future. My suggestion.
keyclone888 6 hours ago
@zhaoshibai11 AS A TURKIS I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH CHINESE PEOPLE BUT !! I HATE TO SE HOW CHINESE REGIME TREAT UYGUR TURKS IN EASTERN TURKISTAN THAT ISSUE NOT HELPING OUR RELATION.
edcboatman 4 days ago
bEnTURK34 1 week ago
@SuperSerkan999 long time ago,turkish live in north China,but they lost the war with chinese
zhaoshibai11 1 month ago
turk are mongols(The Turkic migration as defined in this article was the expansion of the Turkic peoples across most of Central Asia into Europe and the Middle East between the 6th and 11th centuries AD (the Early Middle Ages). Tribes less certainly identified as Turkic began their expansion centuries earlier as the predominant element of the Huns. Their prehistoric point of origin was the hypothetical Proto-Turkic region of the Far East including North China and Inner Mongolia)
goran21715 1 month ago
very nice. Turkish and China have big history.
were very similar people and we must build trust with 2 big nations together.
SuperSerkan999 4 months ago