Aiming to double Turkey-Ukraine trade to $10 billion by 2023, the presidents of both countries placed a priority Monday on completing a bilateral free trade agreement

Aiming to double Turkey-Ukraine trade to $10 billion by 2023, the presidents of both countries placed a priority Monday on completing a bilateral free trade agreement. “I hope we will be able to report good news very soon,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a bilateral business forum in Kyiv. President Zelenskiy expressed similar urgency to wrap up the 10-year-old negotiations, saying: “We have agreed to give impetus to our representatives working on the text of the free trade agreement…This will give an impetus in many areas: agriculture and food industry, housing, energy and energy efficiency, transport and tourism.”