{"id":708,"date":"2014-02-08T22:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=708"},"modified":"2014-04-18T18:58:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T16:58:43","slug":"macedonia-and-turkey-increasing-trade-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/macedonia-and-turkey-increasing-trade-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Macedonia and Turkey increasing trade ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_709\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligntop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-709\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image.jpg\" alt=\" Turkey&#039;s government delegation was led by Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah Isler (fifth from right) during a visit to Macedonia. [Facebook\/NGruevski]\" width=\"510\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-709\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Turkey&#8217;s government delegation was led by Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah Isler (fifth from right) during a visit to Macedonia. [Facebook\/NGruevski]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah Isler visited Skopje last month and met with Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to discuss ways to continue strengthening bi-lateral relations and increase economic and trade ties, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Gruevski said the government&#8217;s goal is to continue to ensure there is a business climate that makes Macedonia an attractive destination for Turkish investors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Macedonia is open to Turkish investors, which can be concluded by the investments of many Turkish companies so far,&#8221; Gruevski said.<\/p>\n<p>Macedonian officials made a presentation outlining the advantages Macedonia offers to investors, from low taxes, inexpensive land and a competitive labour force to benefits for production facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Isler said Turkey&#8217;s government has actively encouraged interest among the Turkish business community and will continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey is Macedonia&#8217;s eighth-largest trading partner, and Turkish businessmen have invested about 1 billion euros in Macedonia in the food, construction and services sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Turkish milk producer Sutas announced it will increase its investment in Macedonia and double its production.<\/p>\n<p>There are great opportunities for Turkish investors in Macedonia&#8217;s textile and agriculture sectors as well as in electrical power plants, said Hasan Hosben, head of the Macedonian-Turkish Business Council under Turkey&#8217;s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relations between the two countries can be even better thanks to the good relations between the two governments,&#8221; Hosben told SETimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah Isler visited Skopje last month and met with Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to discuss ways to continue strengthening bi-lateral relations and increase economic and trade ties, officials said. Gruevski said the government&#8217;s goal is to continue to ensure there is a business climate that makes Macedonia an attractive destination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,19,30],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balkans","category-13","category-19","category-30","tag-macedonia-and-turkey-increasing-trade-ties"],"views":583,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}