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Chile–Turkey relations

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Chile-Turkey relations

Chile	Turkey

Chile–Turkey relations (Spanish: Las relaciones Chile-Turquía; Turkish: Şili-Türkiye ilişkileri) are foreign relations between Chile and Turkey. Chile was the first country in Latin America which recognized Turkey with the Friendship Treaty, on January 30, 1926.^[1]InSantiago, there can be found the Turkish Republic Square, Atatürk College^[2][3] and Atatürk monument.^[4]

In 1930 the Turkish Embassy in Chile opened as the Turks rewarded the Chileans for formally recognizing their country in 1926. The Chilean embassy in Turkey opened in 1941.^[5]

In addition Turkey includes a Chile Square in Ankara inaugurated on September 18, 1970 that contains the Bernardo O'Higgins Monument.^[4][6] The Pablo Neruda square in Turkey was inaugurated in 2007.^[4]

Country comparison[edit]

	Chile	Turkey
Flag
State Emblem / National Emblem
Population	17,574,003	83,154,997
Area	756,096.3 km2 (291,930.4 sq mi)	783,356 km2 (302,455 sq mi)
Population density	24/km2 (62.2/sq mi)	105/km2 (271.9/sq mi)
Capital	Santiago	Ankara
Government	Unitary presidential constitutional republic	Unitary presidential constitutional republic
Current Leader	President Gabriel Boric President of the Senate Álvaro Elizalde	President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz
Official languages	Spanish	Turkish
Main religions	86.2% Christianity, 11.5% non-religious	89.5% Islam, 8.9% non-religious, 1.6% other[7][8][9][10]
Ethnic groups	96.7% White, 10.8% Indigenous	85% Turkish, 9% Kurdish 6% Others
Human Development Index (HDI)	0.851 (very high)[11] — 43rd	0.820 (very high)[12] — 54th
GDP (PPP)	$528.300 billion ($27,150 per capita)	$2.464 trillion[13] ($29,326 per capita)

Presidential Visits[edit]

Guest	Host	Place of visit	Date of visit
President Süleyman Demirel	President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle	La Moneda Palace, Santiago	April 6, 1995[14]
President Ricardo Lagos	President Ahmet Necdet Sezer	Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara	October 12, 2004[14]
President Sebastián Piñera	President Abdullah Gül	Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara	November 20, 2012[14]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	President Sebastián Piñera	La Moneda Palace, Santiago	January 31, 2016[14]

Turkish population in Chile[edit]

According to a TV program titled 5N1K (CNN Türk), about 1,000 Turkish citizens live in Chile.^[15]

See also[edit]

• Embassy of Turkey, Santiago
• Foreign relations of Chile
• Foreign relations of Turkey

References[edit]

Chile

Turkey

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