Türkiye and Romania have strong political, economic, cultural relations and humanitarian bonds based on deep-rooted historical ties. Türkiye and Romania maintain their close relations through high-level dialogue and friendship.

Based on the mutual commitment to enhance bilateral relations in every field, the level of our relations were raised to strategic partnership with the signing of Strategic Partnership Declaration in December 2011. The Action Plan on the implementation of the Declaration was signed in March 2013. The 10th anniversary of the Strategic Partnership in 2021 was celebrated with various events held in both Ankara and Bucharest.

The exchange of high level visits between Türkiye and Romania reflects the close political dialogue and friendly relations.

Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Bucharest on 22-23 April 2021 on the occasion of the Türkiye-Romania-Poland Trilateral Foreign Ministers Meeting.

The 27th Meeting of the Joint Economic Commission (KEK) was held in Istanbul on March 31, 2022, co-chaired by Vice President, H.E. Mr. Fuat Oktay and Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Sorin Grindeanu.

Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu visited Türkiye on 6 December 2022.

Article 6 of the Romanian Constitution guarantees national minorities “the right to the preservation, development and expression of” their ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity including education in the mother tongue.

More than 70.000 Turks and Tatar Turks, along with other 16 minority groups in Romania, enjoy their constitutional rights through minority organizations they established. Each minority organization has political party status and minority groups are represented in the parliament in proportion to their population. Turks and Tatar Turks have one seat each in the Parliament.

Economic Relations

Source: TÜİK (million USD)

Türkiye and Romania are each other’s largest trading partners in the Balkans.

Türkiye is among the largest investors in Romania with its current value of investment exceeding 7,5 billion USD including those coming from third countries. Approximately 7.000 Turkish companies actively operate in Romania. Romania continues to offer significant opportunities for both Turkish exports and investments.

In Romania, total value of the construction projects which have been completed by Turkish contractors so far amount to 6,4 billion USD.

886.555 Romanian tourists visited Türkiye in 2022.