Turkish Vice President Cevdet Y\u0131lmaz announced on Wednesday that T\u00fcrkiye and Belgium are seeking to expand cooperation across multiple sectors, including trade, defense, energy, and digital transformation, following high-level talks in Ankara.<\/p>\n
New momentum in strategic areas<\/p>\n
Y\u0131lmaz met with Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot and his delegation at the Presidential Complex as part of the Belgian Economic Mission to T\u00fcrkiye led by Queen Mathilde. In a post on the Turkish social media platform NSosyal, Y\u0131lmaz said: \u201cWe are pleased that our relations with Belgium, our NATO ally and partner, are gaining new momentum in areas such as trade, energy, connectivity, defense industry and digital transformation.\u201d He noted that bilateral trade volume reached $9.2 billion in 2025, with both countries aiming to increase the figure further in the coming years.<\/p>\n
Defense cooperation and EU relations<\/p>\n
Y\u0131lmaz emphasized that both nations are determined to strengthen defense cooperation within the NATO framework while deepening joint work on \u201cstrategic issues such as the Middle Corridor and energy security.\u201d He also highlighted the importance of \u201ca constructive, inclusive and strategic approach\u201d in T\u00fcrkiye-EU relations. He expressed hope that the meetings held during the Belgian Economic Mission\u2014described as the largest Belgian delegation visit to T\u00fcrkiye under Queen Mathilde\u2019s leadership\u2014would open the door to new partnerships and mark \u201ca new turning point\u201d in relations with both Belgium and the EU. T\u00fcrkiye continues to advance its strategic partnerships with European allies while playing a key role in regional trade and energy corridors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish Vice President Cevdet Y\u0131lmaz announced on Wednesday that T\u00fcrkiye and Belgium are seeking to expand cooperation across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1596,1597,181,10348,3074,10349],"class_list":{"0":"post-15573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-cooperation","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-trade","12":"tag-turkish-vice-president","13":"tag-turkiye","14":"tag-yilmaz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116568962168289353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}