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NRW Prime Minister Wüst ends his trip to Türkiye with an economic conference in Istanbul

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  • NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst ends his three-day trip to Turkey by taking part in an economic conference in Istanbul and a planned city tour with 91-year-old Sabri Aydin, one of the first guest workers from Turkey who came to Germany in 1961.
  • Company agreements are signed and the importance of German-Turkish trade is highlighted.

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The trip takes place in the context of the 60th anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Germany and Turkey in 1961, which enabled the immigration of many Turkish workers to Germany, particularly in industry and mining.

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North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst ends his three-day trip to Turkey by taking part in an economic conference in Istanbul. A city tour is also planned with 91-year-old Sabri Aydin, who came to Germany in 1961 as one of the first so-called guest workers from Turkey. The agreement concluded at that time to recruit Turkish workers is the reason for the trip. Within twelve years, almost 900,000 Turks came to Germany to work in factories or in mining.

Several company agreements are to be signed as part of the economic conference. The annual trade volume of the most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia with Turkey is ten to twelve billion euros, around 20 percent of the total German-Turkish trade volume. According to the state government, more than 1,300 Turkish companies are active in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Wüst began his trip to Turkey in Ankara and met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, three ministers and representatives of the opposition.

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  • The signed company agreements will lead to increased trade relations between NRW and Turkey within the next 6 months.

    Likely · Within months

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  • Which specific corporate agreements should be signed?
  • How is the encounter with Sabri Aydin structured and what symbolic meaning does it have?
  • Are there any planned follow-up activities or agreements after Wüst returns to NRW?

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PeopleHendrik WustSabri AydinRecep Tayyip Erdogan
OrganizationsState government of North Rhine-WestphaliaTurkish government
PlacesIstanbulAnkaraNorth Rhine-WestphaliaTürkiye
TopicsTürkiyeistanbuleconomic conferencesabri aydinguest workersnrw
This article was originally published by Die Zeit.

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