TURKEY AND SINGAPORE SIGN COMPREHENSIVE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

1.            Singapore and Turkey are enhancing bilateral relations and boosting economic cooperation with the signing of the Turkey-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (TRSFTA).

2.            Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan witnessed the signing of the TRSFTA between Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat and Turkey’s Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey today.

3.            Negotiations for the TRSFTA were launched by Prime Minister Lee and Turkey’s then-Prime Minister Erdoğan in January 2014 and concluded in October 2015. The signing builds upon the Strategic Partnership signed between Prime Minister Lee and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in October 2014.

Please click here for the full press release: Press release on signing of TRSFTA (final).pdf