Chile–Turkey relations

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Chile-Turkey relations

Chile	Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera

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] In Santiago, 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[]

	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 Sebastián Piñera President of the Senate Adriana Muñoz D`Albora	President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Vice President Fuat Oktay
Official languages	Spanish	Turkish
Main religions	86.2% Christian, 11.5% No religion	97.6% Islam, 1.1% Judaism, 0.3% Christianity
Ethnic groups	96.7% White, 10.8% Indigenous	85% Turkish, 9% Kurdish 6% Others
Human Development Index (HDI)	0.847 (very high)[7] — 42nd	0.806 (very high)[8] — 59th
GDP (PPP)	$528.300 billion ($27,150 per capita)	$2.464 trillion[9] ($29,326 per capita)

Presidential Visits[]

Guest	Host	Place of visit	Date of visit
President Süleyman Demirel	President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle	La Moneda Palace, Santiago	April 6, 1995[10]
President Ricardo Lagos	President Ahmet Necdet Sezer	Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara	October 12, 2004[11]
President Sebastián Piñera	President Abdullah Gül	Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara	November 20, 2012[12]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	President Sebastián Piñera	La Moneda Palace, Santiago	January 31, 2016[13]

Turkish population in Chile[]

According to a TV program titled 5N1K (CNN Turk), about 1,000 Turkish citizens live in Chile.^[14]

See also[]

• Foreign relations of Chile
• Foreign relations of Turkey

References[]

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