Chile-Turkey relations
Map indicating locations of Chile and Turkey

Chile
Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera
Embassy of Turkey in Santiago

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 Chile Turkey
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 Ximena Rincón		 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Vice President Fuat Oktay
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

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

Turkish population in Chile

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ "Yayınlarımız". Archived from the original on 23 November 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
  3. ↑ Embajador De Turquía Visitó Nuevas Dependencias De Colegio Ataturk loprado.cl 9 January 2009 (in Spanish) Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 3 (in Spanish) Asuntos Culturales Archived February 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Önsoy, Murat. "Latin America-Turkey Relations: Reaching Out to Distant Shores of the Western Hemisphere" (Chapter 12). In: Ercan, Pınar Gözen (editor) (Hacettepe University). Turkish Foreign Policy: International Relations, Legality and Global Reach. Springer Science+Business Media, 7 April 2017. ISBN 3319504517, 9783319504513. Start: p. 237. CITED: p. 245.
  6. ↑ "Basyn - Yayýn ve Enformasyon Genel Müdürlüðü". Archived from the original on 23 November 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
  7. ↑ Özkök, Ertuğrul (21 May 2019). "Turkey is no longer the country with 99% population is Muslim" (in Turkish).
  8. ↑ "Faith survey from Optimar: 89% of population believes monotheism" (in Turkish). T24.com.tr. 15 May 2019.
  9. ↑ "Tengrism is also rising" (in Turkish). OdaTV. 9 April 2018. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  10. ↑ "Bir eşitlik arayışı: Türkiye'de azınlıklar" (PDF). minorityrights.org (in Turkish). 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "Human Development Report 2020" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  12. ↑ "2020 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  13. ↑ "International Monetary Fund, Report on selected countries". imf.org. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  14. 1 2 3 4 "Bilateral Relations". Ministerios dde Relaciones Exteriores.
  15. ↑ CNN Türk TV program, Turks in Chile, 15 May 2008 Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine


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