Türkiye is hop­ing to strength­en its busi­ness re­la­tions with Trinidad and To­ba­go. This is ac­cord­ing to the Turk­ish Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Bengü Yiğit­güde. Speak­ing at a busi­ness lunch meet­ing host­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­try (TTC­SI), Yiğit­güde says she wants to draw more at­ten­tion to their trade mar­ket.

“Our fig­ures in trade are very mod­est, but it does not re­al­ly re­flect our po­ten­tial, it should be more. So, I am hop­ing that we can in­crease those num­bers and cre­ate more aware­ness about the mar­ket here in Trinidad and To­ba­go and to draw some at­ten­tion to the pos­si­bil­i­ties of what Türkiye can do,” Yiğit­güde said.

Yiğit­güde added that she hopes to have more cul­tur­al ex­changes be­tween the two coun­tries.

Türkiye is just one of 36 coun­tries in­volved in TTC­SI’s ‘Do­ing Busi­ness with the World’ se­ries. Ac­cord­ing to TTC­SI’s Pres­i­dent, Mark Edghill, these coun­tries have an in­ter­est in ex­plor­ing ser­vices of­fered in T&T.

“We’re ba­si­cal­ly look­ing to in­tro­duce our lo­cal ser­vice providers that are ex­port-ready to ac­cess mar­kets and learn about mar­kets, how to ac­cess those mar­kets, what the re­quire­ments are to en­ter and do busi­ness with those mar­kets, and those mar­kets around the world. So, it’s ba­si­cal­ly for any com­pa­ny that is in­ter­est­ed in ex­pand­ing their busi­ness and do­ing busi­ness over­seas, ex­port­ing their ser­vices, and earn­ing for­eign ex­change, to ac­cess and par­tic­i­pate in the we­bi­na­rs that we are putting on,” he said.

Edghill said the par­tic­i­pa­tion in their we­bi­na­rs has dou­bled since their first ses­sion. Each week, an as­signed coun­try hosts the meet­ing and events to in­form the par­tic­i­pants. He al­so said the Turk­ish high com­mis­sion has been par­tic­u­lar­ly in­ter­est­ed in T&T, and they hope to see de­vel­op­ments in trade be­tween the two coun­tries.