Speaking at the opening of the second Serbia Business Forum organized by TUSKON in Belgrade on Tuesday, Coşkun said the latest figures suggest that trade between the two nations jumped 10 percent in January over the same month last year thanks to the countries’ new visa regimes. He added that this was despite the fact that it has been only less than two months since they ceased to require visas from the other’s nationals as part of an agreement signed earlier last year.
Commenting on the initiatives TUSKON has been taking to improve the two countries’ economic relations, Coşkun underlined that they are willing to assume the role of a bridge between the nations. “Turkish businesspeople who attended this last meeting tell us that they are certainly going to be conducting business in Serbia even if they cannot obtain something concrete as a result of this meeting,” he told Today’s Zaman in Belgrade. Tens of businesspeople from Turkey met with their Serbian counterparts from around 150 local companies as part of TUSKON’s latest event in the Balkan country on Tuesday.
Also present at the forum, Ivana Zeljkovic, the secretary-general of the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce, said furniture, construction, food, textiles and telecommunications” are the sectors Turkish investors should show a keen interest in if they want to enter the Serbian market.
