Minister of State Kursad Tuzmen of Turkey

4 billion dollars in 2003, Tuzmen said at a meeting of Turkey-Africa Foreign Trade Bridge Program in Istanbul.

ISTANBUL --Turkey's Foreign Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen said late Sunday that the delays on Russian customs posts have cost Turkish exporters more than $500 million, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported.

ISTANBUL --Turkey's Foreign Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen said Tuesday that imports fell 30% in November and may continue to fall in the coming period, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported.

Answering reporters questions at a conference Tuzmen said his government expects exports to decrease 17% and imports to fall 25% in 2009.

JEDDAH, 9 March 2003 — Turkish Foreign Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen has proposed that the Kingdom form a bilateral business council and said he hopes for a new era of Saudi-Turkish relations.

ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said on Thursday, we will complete signing of free trade agreement (FTA) with Arab countries in a vast area from Morocco to Syria in the next few years.

5 billion in 2008, Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen said in the text of a speech he was making on Friday.

Mr Tuzmen said that Turkish contractors were working on projects worth $55 billion outside Turkey.

Acknowledging Russia’s large-scale company experience and Turkey has greater experience of small-middle size enterprises, Tuzmen said that potential was needed to be realized to achieve the results.

Tuzmen said that increases in world exports can be realized by following the success of small and medium sized enterprises (KOBIs) that embark on export in countries like China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

Turkey : Ready to dress the world in jeans28thJune,2005 If Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen is to be believed, Turkey seems itching to dress the world in jeans manufactured from that country.

Speaking ahead of denim fair being organized in Russia, Tuzmen said 200 million people throughout the world wear Turkish jeans, while its manufacturing market share in percentile terms stands at 6.

Turkish Foreign Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen has claimed that the increase in the value of foreign currencies against the Turkish lira will help to increase exports and curb the foreign trade deficit.

Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said Thursday that Turkey's exports would reach 107 billion USD by the end of 2007.

During his speech, Tuzmen said EU member Greece's annual exports reached 20 billion USD, while only UIB's exports exceeded such figure.

Tuzmen said Turkey broke many records in exports and added, "Turkey's export figures stand on two record-holder sectors: textile and automotive.

Turkish State Minister for Trade Kursad Tuzmen has announced that the business volume between Turkey and Iraq has reached $5.

Turkish contractors in Iraq made business contracts worth $1.

8 billion this year, the country's trade minister Kursad Tuzmen has said.

Tuzmen said a train line between Gaziantep and Baghdad should be revived as part of other steps to increase the trade volume.

Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said In the first six months of 2008, the trade volume between Turkey and Iraq increased by 50 percent when compared to the same term last year.

Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said Friday Turkey would reach a trade volume of 10 billion USD with Iraq by the year 2010.

Tuzmen received the Iraqi Planning Minister Ali Baban and an accompanying delegation in Ankara.

tr) -The normalization of Iraq, which would generate 250 billion dollars in oil revenues, would boost Turkey's trade volume with this country to 30 billion dollars, Turkey's Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen said on Sunday.

Tuzmen said exports and the construction services Turkey provided to Iraq would be boosted and the transportation sector would also benefit as the revenue of the country increased.

Tuzmen said their year-end target for the trade volume with Iraq was $5 billion.

Turkish exporters are selling their products in the Iraqi market despite the difficulties," Tuzmen was quoted as saying.

Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen says Turkey is to increase its investment in Iran, despite US pressures on Ankara to isolate Tehran.

We will in stages implement the same measures to Russian exports under the principle of reciprocity," Turkish Foreign Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen said on Friday.

var RTR_ArticleBlurb = " ANKARA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Delays caused by Russian customs have cost Turkish exporters $500 million so far, Turkish Foreign Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen was quoted as saying on Sunday.

ANKARA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Delays caused by Russian customs have cost Turkish exporters $500 million so far, Turkish Foreign Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen was quoted as saying on Sunday.

For his part, Turkish Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen said that putting into effect the free trade agreement between the two countries was a result of joint efforts by the two sides.

Stressing that solving such conflict with EU member countries one by one would be quite difficult, Tuzmen said a general solution should be developed by EU.

Tuzmen: Turkey to open another border gate with Syria The New Anatolian / Ankara14 November 2007Font Size: defaultmediumlargeTurkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said Tuesday that the sector that deserves priority in Turkish-Syrian relations is transportation and explained that Turkey aims to boost annual trade volume with Syria to 5 billion US.

MERSIN - Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said on Sunday that Turkey has around 300 billion USD trade volume.

correspondent, Tuzmen said exports, tourism as well as construction sectors should be enlivened to eliminate probable problems that may be caused by current account deficit.

ANKARA - Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said on Monday that Luxembourg, one of the most important finance and service sector centers of the world, may contribute to Turkey in terms of foreign capital.

Tuzmen met Economy and Foreign Trade Minister Jeannot Krecke of Luxembourg in Ankara.

Speaking at the meeting, Tuzmen said Luxembourg was a small country but its national income per capita was 110,000 USD, and Turkey's foreign trade volume with Luxembourg was 200 million euro.

Tuzmen said it was the first time that a Luxembourger minister for economy, foreign trade and sports as well as businessmen delegation and representatives of finance, logistics, and advertisement sectors were visiting Turkey.

Tuzmen said that although the Turkish economy is well equipped to compete in the premier league of exporters, current level of trade between Turkey and the US.

BAGHDAD, July 1 (UPI) -- Turkey plans to open an industrial zone in the southern port city of Basra and broker a free-trade agreement with Iraq, officials said Tuesday.

Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said Saturday he would be travelling to Iraq on Sunday to help prepare Iraq for the visit of Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said that and Turkish businessmen visited shrines of Mahmud al-Kashgari and Yusuf Khass Hajib in the historical town, Kashgar, in East Turkistan.

Tuzmen said that Turkish marble exporters would undertake restoration of the shrines.

Indicating that Turkey had an important place in the textile sector, Tuzmen said that Turkey, parallel to the developments in irrigation and agriculture technologies, has improved a lot in cotton production since the 1990s.

Turkey - Textile sector turnover to reach $150 bln in 202308 Feb, 2008-TurkeyTurkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said Thursday he believes Turkey's textile and ready-made clothing turnover will climb to 150 billion USD.

Tuzmen said Turkey's textile exports were up 17 percent and ready-made clothing exports were up 16 percent in 2007 despite extra-valuable new Turkish liras (YTL.