Turkey, Turkmenistan ready for free-trade agreement


ANKARA — Turkey and Turkmenistan are set to remove obstacles to free trade between the two countries this year, Turkey's Economy Minister has said.
Nihat Zeybekci told the Turkmenistan-Turkey Business Forum on Tuesday that the move will establish an extensive trade agreement by 2015.
Zeybekci said: "Until the end of this year, we will negotiate, finalize and sign an agreement which can be identified as a free-trade agreement, economic cooperation or preferential trade agreement, or whatever you would like to call it."
"We will put this agreement into process in 2015. Hence, new horizons will open."