Bhutan–Turkey relations

Bhutan–Turkey relations are the foreign relations between Bhutan and Turkey.

Bhutan-Turkey relations

Bhutan
Turkey

Diplomatic relations

Great Britain guided Bhutan’s foreign affairs between 1865 and 1947.[1] From then on, Bhutan has maintained an isolationist streak in world affairs under the guidance of India, with which Bhutan had had official diplomatic relations since 1949.[1] Bhutan had no formal diplomatic relations with Turkey until 2012 because of the shortage of diplomatic personnel.

Bhutan and Turkey maintained, however, informal contact through the embassies of Bhutan and Turkey in New Delhi.[2]

Through Turkish facilitation,[2] ESCAP — in coordination with UNCTAD and UNDP — granted the special status of "least developed landlocked countries" to Bhutan[3] along with Afghanistan, Laos, Mongolia and Nepal. Despite the developmental aid pledges of Turkey, Bhutan declined to participate in this development program.[3]

Following US$ 10 million Turkish aid to Bhutan in response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Aila[4] in May 2009, Bhutan and Turkey finally established[4] formal diplomatic relations in 2012.

Economic relations
  • Trade volume between the two countries was 1.58 million USD in 2018 (Turkish exports/imports: 0.1/1.48 million USD).[5]

See also

References
  1. Savada, Andrea Matles, ed. (1993). Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies (3rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 329. ISBN 0-8444-0777-1. OCLC 27429416. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "Economic Development and Social Changes in Bhutan." pp. 82-99 in Urmila Phadnis, S.D. Muni, and Kalim Bahadur (eds.), Domestic Conflicts in South Asia. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1986.
  3. "India's Aid to Bhutan," South Asian Studies [Jaipur, India], 18, No. 1, January-June 1983, pp. 75-84.
  4. "Kingdom of Bhutan," Current World Leaders, 33, No. 1, February 2018, p. 16.
  5. "Economic Relations between Turkey and Bhutan". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey.
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