Norway–Turkey relations are foreign relations between

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

and

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The bilateral relations were established in 1926.

Diplomatic relations

Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Norway were first established in 1926. Since then, bilateral relations have been maintained within the framework of mutual peace and friendship. Due to their

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membership, the two countries are also militarily allies. The embassies of Turkey and Norway operate reciprocally. In addition, Norway has honorary consulates in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

Antalya Antalya () is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, fifth-most populous city in Turkey as well as the capital of Antalya Province. Located on Anatolia's southwest coast bordered by the Taurus Mountains, Antalya is the largest Turkish cit ...

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

Alanya Alanya (; ), formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and a district of Antalya Province on the southern coast of Turkey, in the country's Mediterranean Region, east of the city of Antalya. As of Turkey's 2010 census, the city had a population of ...

and

İskenderun İskenderun ( ar, الإسكندرونة, el, Αλεξανδρέττα "Little Alexandria"), historically known as Alexandretta and Scanderoon, is a city in Hatay Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Names The city was founded as Ale ...

. Official contacts between countries have been maintained mostly at the level of ministries.

Economic relations

The commercial relations between Turkey and Norway gained momentum in the 2000s and the mutual foreign trade volume exceeded the level of 1 billion dollars for the first time in 2008. The foreign trade volume 1.27 billion dollars in 2018, 513 million dollars of which was exports from Turkey to Norway and 765 million dollars was exports from Norway to Turkey. The main products exported from Turkey to Norway are passenger and

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, automobiles, motor vehicles and textile products. The main products imported from Norway are petroleum products, fish, ferroalloys, polymers, newsprint and fish oil. The majority of Norwegian investments in Turkey are in the energy and shipping sectors. Between 2002 and 2018, Norway made US$862 million in direct investments in Turkey. The EFTA's first free trade agreement was with Turkey in 1991. In 2017, Norway and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) agreed to update the free trade agreement with Turkey. The agreement now includes services trade, environmental protection, and labor rights. In 2018, the two countries signed an agreement on exchange of financial account information in tax related issues.

History

In October 2021, in the wake of the appeal for the release of Turkish activist Osman Kavala signed by 10 western countries, Turkish president

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the List of presidents of Turkey, 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Lis ...

ordered his foreign minister to declare the Norwegian ambassador ''

persona non grata In diplomacy, a ' (Latin: "person not welcome", plural: ') is a status applied by a host country to foreign diplomats to remove their protection of diplomatic immunity from arrest and other types of prosecution. Diplomacy Under Article 9 of the ...

'', alongside the other 9 ambassadors. Following a statement by the ambassadors, reiterating their compliance with Article 41 of the

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regarding the diplomatic duty not to interfere in host states’ internal affairs, President Erdoğan decided to not expel the ambassadors.

Diplomatic relations

Economic relations

History

High level visits

See also

References

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