“Thank you for your invitation, it is a pleasure to be in Ankara and anywhere in Turkey. my visit has one goal: strengthening and increasing bilateral relations. We have excellent political and economic relations and their future development is very important to both our countries,” said Basescu.
Basescu also thanked the business community in Turkey, which invested $5 billion in Romania.
“Commercial exchanges between Romania and Turkey stand at about $5 billion and we hope to reach $10 billion soon,” he said .
Basescu is on a two-day official visit to Ankara for talks with the the Turkish president, prime minster and head of Parliament, and the business community in Turkey. Basescu will also be visiting a training center for F-16 fighter jet pilots.