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“Great Game” is the geostrategic and diplomatic confrontation during the 19th century between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire in Central and South Asia.

Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China (1949), making it clear that his country was from now on a member of the communist world.

Turkish and Chinese ambassadors stationed in Paris came together to sign a joint declaration on August 4, 1971, through which Turkey officially recognized the People’s Republic of China

In 1982, Kenan Evren became the first Turkish president to set foot in China with the intent to promote trade relations.

The One Belt One Road (OBOR) project, a.k.a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), or the New Silk Roads was announced by China’s president Xi Jinping in 2013.

China’s official goal with the BRI is to strengthen trade and improve maritime and territorial transport connectivity between China and Western Europe, passing through Central Asia and the Middle East, with secondary branches that would link China to Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, northern Africa, and even to the North Pole.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a regional economic and security cooperation organization established in 2001. It brings together China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, along with India and Pakistan since 2017.

It was in 1952, in other words during the Korean War, that Turkey first granted refugee status to two thousand Uyghurs from China.

Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority native to Xinjiang region, in Western China.

The inauguration of a Chinese military base in Djibouti in 2017, China’s first permanent military installation outside Asia.

Ankara is determined to deepen and diversify its relations with Beijing, especially in the economic field since the beginning of 2000s.

"Great Game” is the geostrategic and diplomatic confrontation during the 19th century between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire in Central and South Asia.

The two young republics decided to establish bilateral diplomatic relations nally in 1929 through an agreement signed by the ambassadors of both countries in Washington.

In 1971, Turkey finally recognized the communist government in Beijing and established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China.

The visibility of communist China in Turkey increased considerably during the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976).

In 1982, Kenan Evren became the rst Turkish president to set foot in China with the intent to promote trade relations.

Turkey’s trade de cit vis-à-vis China is growing faster than Turkey’s overall trade de cit. As an example, between 2000 and 2010, Turkey’s overall trade de cit rose from $ 26.7 billion to $ 71.6 billion, an increase of 168%, while Turkey’s trade de cit with China increased by 1.100% over the same period, from $ 1.3 billion to $ 9.14 billion.

A Turkish-Chinese business council (TÜÇİK) was established in 1992 under the aegis of the Council for Foreign Economic Relations (DEİK).

Turkey participated in the 1st New Silk Roads summit held in Beijing in May 2017 at the highest level, and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed personally his wish to take full advantage of this project to his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping.

The World Uyghur Congress example, was established in Munich in 2004.