Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev have pledged to deepen bilateral ties across energy, trade, transport, defence, and technology following high-level talks in Astana.
On Thursday, the two leaders held a one-to-one meeting at Astana’s Palace of Independence before jointly chairing the sixth meeting of the Türkiye-Kazakhstan High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council.
At a subsequent joint press conference, Erdoğan said the talks had covered energy, transport, trade, health, mining, culture, education, technology, and defence industry cooperation.
On energy, Ankara aims to deliver “more oil from Kazakhstan to global markets”, Erdoğan said, underlining Türkiye’s ambition to position itself as a key energy route linking Central Asia to international markets.
Addressing regional connectivity, he said the importance of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, also known as the Middle Corridor, “is better understood every day” in light of recent geopolitical developments.
Still under construction, the Middle Corridor is a 4,000-kilometre rail, sea, and road network linking Southeast Asia and China to Europe via Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Türkiye.
Ankara has promoted the multimodal corridor as a strategic alternative for trade and energy flows, particularly as geopolitical tensions continue to disrupt traditional Eurasian transport routes across Eurasia.
Tokayev, for his part, said Türkiye-Kazakhstan relations were developing “in the spirit of a strategic partnership”, adding that there were “no disagreements or contradictions” between the two Turkic nations.
He also noted that Türkiye was among Kazakhstan’s largest investors and one of its top five trading partners.
During Erdoğan’s visit, officials from both countries signed 13 bilateral agreements, including a declaration of eternal friendship and a deal reinforcing their strategic partnership.
On Friday, Erdoğan will travel to the Kazakh city of Turkistan, known as the “spiritual capital of the Turkic world”, to attend an informal summit of the Organisation of Turkic States.
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