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Latvia–Turkey relations

Latvia	Turkey
Diplomatic mission
Latvian Embassy, Ankara	Turkish Embassy, Riga
Envoy
Ambassador Pēteris Vaivars	Ambassador Gülsun Erkul[1]

Latvia–Turkey relations are the foreignrelations betweenLatvia andTurkey. Both countries are members ofNATO and theCouncil of Europe. Latvia is anEUmember and Turkey is anEUcandidate. Latvia supports Turkey's accession negotiations to the EU, although negotiations have now been suspended.

• Turkey recognized the independence of Latvia in 1925.^[2][3]
• Following the USSR annexation of Latvia in August 1940, Turkey closed its consulate inRiga– in tandem with the United States– on September 5, 1940. Despite the closure of the consulate, Turkey never recognized the Latvia's annexation and continued diplomatic relations with Latvia and Estonia by conferring diplomatic status on the diplomats that were accredited by the previous Latvian government.^{[citation needed]}
• Turkey recognized the restoration of Latvia's independence on September 3, 1991.^[2]

Guest	Host	Place of visit	Date of visit
PresidentAndris Bērziņš	PresidentAbdullah Gül	Çankaya Köşkü,Ankara	April 16–17, 2014[4]
PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan	PresidentAndris Bērziņš	Riga Castle,Riga	October 22–23, 2014[4]
Minister of Foreign AffairsMevlüt Çavuşoğlu	Minister of Foreign AffairsEdgars Rinkēvičs	Riga Castle,Riga	May 16, 2019[4]
Minister of Foreign AffairsEdgars Rinkēvičs	Minister of Foreign AffairsMevlüt Çavuşoğlu	Ankara	August 16, 2022[5]

Trade volume between the two countries was 398 million USD in 2016 (Turkish exports/imports: 196/202 million USD).^[4]

• Latvia has an embassy inAnkara.
• Turkey has an embassy inRiga.

• Foreign relations of Latvia
• Foreign relations of Turkey

• Latvia–Turkey relations
• Bilateral relations of Latvia
• Bilateral relations of Turkey

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