BiH Presidency members Bakir Izetbegovic and Dragan Covic began an official visit to Turkey this week, which will include meetings with Turkish officials and discussions of how the two countries can increase their economic cooperation and trade. Izetbegovic and Covic met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, and are scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Ahmet Davatoglu as well.
According to data provided by the Foreign Chamber of Commerce of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the commercial exchange between the two countries has increased sharply during the past five years.
“From 2010, the total import of Turkish products [which was around € 250 million in 2014] in Bosnia increased by 50%, whereas the total export of Bosnian products to Turkey [€ 117 million in 2014] almost triplicated”, Aida Kapicija, the spokesperson of the Bosnian Foreign Chamber of Commerce, told BIRN.
