Turkey and Ukraine have agreed to sign a free trade deal by the end of this year,

Turkey and Ukraine have agreed to sign a free trade deal by the end of this year, the two presidents said Saturday at a joint press conference in Istanbul. Capping a decade of trade talks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Today, we have decided to complete the work of signing the Free Trade Agreement agreement by the end of the year. We believe that through this agreement we will be able to achieve our goal – a trade balance of $10 billion.”