Finland–Turkey relations

Finnish–Turkish relations
Diplomatic mission
Embassy of Finland, Ankara	Embassy of Turkey, Helsinki

Finland–Turkey relations are foreign relations between Finland and Turkey. Turkey recognized the independence of Finland on February 21, 1918. Diplomatic relations between them were established on May 20, 1920. Finland has an embassy in Ankara and an honorary consulate general in Istanbul and other honorary consulates in Belek, Bodrum and Izmir. Turkey has an embassy in Helsinki.

Country comparison

	Finland	Turkey
Population	5,526,774	79,814,871
Area	338,424 km2 (130,666 sq mi)	783,356 km2 (302,455 sq mi)
Population Density	16/km² (41.4/sq mi)	102/km2 (264.2/sq mi)
Capital	Helsinki	Ankara
Largest City	Helsinki – 655,281 (1,437,799 Metro)	Istanbul – 15,214,177 (5,343.220 Metro)
Global Cities	Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Turku, Vantaa	Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Antalya, Bursa
Government	Unitary parliamentary republic	Unitary presidential constitutional republic
Official language	Finnish and Swedish	Turkish
Current Leader	President Sauli Niinistö Prime Minister Sanna Marin	President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Vice President Fuat Oktay
Main religions	76,5% Christian 22,1% non-religious 1,4% other	95.6% Islam, 0.9% Christianity
Ethnic groups	93.4% Finns, 5.6% Swedishspeaking Finns, 0.1% Sami, 1.1% Russians, 0.7% Estonians, 0.1% Romani, and 0.5% Latvians. also bigger Germans, Macedonians and Iranians	85% Turkish, 9% Kurdish, 6% Others
GDP (PPP)	$257 billion ($46,559 per capita)	$0.857 trillion ^[1] ($10,848 per capita)

List

Guest	Host	Place of visit	Date of visit
President Abdullah Gül	President Tarja Halonen	Helsinki, Finland	7–9 October 2008
Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen	Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Istanbul, Turkey	6 October 2009
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi	Helsinki, Finland	19–20 October 2010
President Tarja Halonen	President Abdullah Gül	Ankara, and Şanlıurfa, Turkey	29–30 March 2011
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen	Helsinki, Finland	5–6 November 2013
President Sauli Niinistö	President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Ankara, and Istanbul, Turkey	12–15 October 2015
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu	Prime Minister Juha Sipilä	Helsinki, Finland	6 April 2016

Embassies

The Embassy of Finland is located in Ankara, Turkey. The Embassy of Turkey is located in Helsinki, Finland.

Diplomacy

Republic of Finland

Ankara (Embassy)

Republic of Turkey

Helsinki (Embassy)

References

^ "International Monetary Fund, Report on selected countries". imf.org. Retrieved 2017-06-24.

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[1] "International Monetary Fund, Report on selected countries". imf.org. Retrieved 2017-06-24.

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