{"id":43747,"date":"2025-05-20T19:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=43747"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:45:39","slug":"india-relationship-with-turkiye-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/20-05-2025\/india-relationship-with-turkiye-azerbaijan","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Relationship with T\u00fcrkiye and Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus :GS 2\/IR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India&#8217;s trade relations with<strong> T\u00fcrkiye and Azerbaijan<\/strong> are expected to come under strain due to Ankara and Baku backing Islamabad and condemning India&#8217;s recent strikes on terror camps in Pakistan.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Background\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India launched <strong>Operation Sindoor<\/strong> on May 7 to destroy nine terror infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir in retaliation for the Kashmir&#8217;s Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All subsequent retaliations for Pakistani offensives were carried out under &#8216;Operation Sindoor&#8217;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During the conflict, Pakistan used Turkish drones in its failed attempt to target Indian military installations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India and Pakistan announced reaching an understanding to stop all firings and military actions on land, air and sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>India\u2019s Trade relationship with T\u00fcrkiye and Azerbaijan<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A bilateral trade agreement was signed in 1973, followed by a pact on setting up an India, Turkiye Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation in 1983.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India&#8217;s exports to T\u00fcrkiye<\/strong> stood at USD 5.2 billion during Apr-Feb 2024-25 as against USD 6.65 billion in 2023-24.\u00a0<ul><li>It accounts for only about 1.5 per cent of India&#8217;s total exports of USD 437 billion.<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>India&#8217;s imports from T\u00fcrkiye<\/strong> was USD 2.84 billion during Apr-Feb 2024-25 as against USD 3.78 billion in 2023-24. It accounts for only about 0.5 per cent of India&#8217;s total imports of USD 720 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India&#8217;s exports to Azerbaijan<\/strong> stood at only USD 86.07 million during Apr-Feb 2024-25 as against USD 89.67 million in 2023-24. It accounts for a meagre 0.02 per cent of India&#8217;s total outbound shipments.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Imports from Azerbaijan<\/strong> were USD 1.93 million during Apr-Feb 2024-25 as against USD 0.74 million in 2023-24.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It accounts for a meagre 0.0002 per cent of India&#8217;s total inbound shipments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India has a trade surplus with both nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Major products traded between these countries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>India&#8217;s exports to T\u00fcrkiye include<\/strong>: Mineral fuels and oil (USD 960 million in 2023-24); electrical machinery and equipment; auto and its parts; organic chemicals; pharma products; tanning and dyeing items; plastic, rubber; cotton; man-made fibres and filaments, iron and steel.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Imports<\/strong>: Different types of marbles (blocks and slabs); fresh apples (about USD 10 million), gold, vegetables, lime and cement; mineral oil (USD 1.81 billion in 2023-24); chemicals; natural or cultured pearls; iron and steel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India&#8217;s exports to Azerbaijan<\/strong> : Tobacco and its products (USD 28.67 million in 2023-24); tea, coffee; cereals; chemicals; plastic; rubber; paper and paper board; and ceramic products.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Imports include<\/strong>: Animal fodder; organic chemicals; essential oils and perfumery; and raw hides and skins and leather (USD 1.52 million during Apr-Feb 2024-25). In 2023, India was the third-largest destination for Azerbaijan&#8217;s crude oil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>People-to-people ties<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There are currently around 3,000 estimated Indian nationals in T\u00fcrkiye, including 200 students.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Similarly, the Indian community in Azerbaijan comprises more than 1,500 people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As per estimates, about 3 lakh Indian tourists visited T\u00fcrkiye in 2023 and over 2 lakh to Azerbaijan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Emerging Issues<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>T\u00fcrkiye and Azerbaijan may come under strain because the two countries have criticised India&#8217;s strike on terror infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00a0Islamabad has also used Turkish drones in the conflict.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India witnessed a surge in calls to boycott both countries.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This led to mass cancellations of travel bookings, withdrawal of tour promotions by Indian operators, and the suspension of academic MoUs by institutions like IIT Bombay and JNU.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In fact, Indian traders too have started boycotting Turkish products such as apples and marble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source :TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">India&#8217;s trade relations with T\u00fcrkiye and Azerbaijan are expected to come under strain due to Ankara and Baku backing Islamabad and condemning India&#8217;s recent strikes on terror camps in Pakistan.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><strong>People-to-people ties<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">There are currently around 3,000 estimated Indian nationals in T\u00fcrkiye, including 200 students.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Similarly, the Indian community in Azerbaijan comprises more than 1,500 people.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">As per estimates, about 3 lakh Indian tourists visited T\u00fcrkiye in 2023 and over 2 lakh to Azerbaijan.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/20-05-2025\/india-relationship-with-turkiye-azerbaijan\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read\u00a0More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43765,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43747\/revisions\/43765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}