In a written statement announcing the visit, the Foreign Ministry said Kazakhstan was the Central Asian country with which Turkey has the strongest relations.
During an official visit by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Turkey in October 2009, the presidents of the two countries signed a strategic partnership agreement.
In June, Ankara will take over the term presidency of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) from Kazakhstan, which has held the presidency since it was established in 1993.
Ankara believes that Kazakhstan’s one-year chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which formally began last month, will offer an opportunity to create synergy between the 56-nation transatlantic security body and the CICA with close coordination between Turkey and Kazakhstan, which is the first former Soviet state to chair the OSCE, after making promises of democratic reforms.
