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Strengthening Hungary-Türkiye ties: New agreement targets joint aid, cultural cooperation
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Cooperation in international development is enhancing Hungary-Türkiye ties, with an MoU signed between the Hungary Helps Agency and the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency, Tristan Azbej, the state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians, said on Thursday, noting agreements made during his visit to Türkiye.
“I’m certain we can translate this agreement into joint actions right away,” he wrote on his Facebook. “People suffering in crisis zones must be helped … and providing appropriate aid can prevent migration from the Sahel region and elsewhere.”
He noted the areas of food safety, educational development, advancing women’s rights and protecting the cultural heritage of Christians, Muslims and other religions as potential points of joint action.
Meanwhile, he said Türkiye was grateful for help Hungary provided after the earthquake in the south of the country, adding that both countries had shown solidarity last year with suffering communities around the world. “The cultural heart of earthquake-stricken Osmaniye province is beating again,” he added.
Hungary handed over a cultural centre and restored the Béla Bartók memorial exhibition within, he said, noting that Bartok had “preserved the treasures of Turkish folk music in this province in 1936”.
Tuzson: Hungary supports Türkiye EU integration
Hungary supports Türkiye’s European Union integration, Bence Tuzson, the justice minister, said after signing a cooperation agreement with Turkish counterpart Yilmaz Tunc in Budapest on Thursday.
The two ministers agreed that leaving Türkiye out of the EU would be the bloc’s loss rather Türkiye’s.
At a joint press conference, Tuzson expressed sympathy over a recent terrorist attack in Ankara claiming five lives, and said that Hungary condemns all kinds of terrorism.
The cooperation accord focusing on the exchange of information in the areas of law and IT, strengthens the two countries’ strategic partnership, Tuzson said, highlighting Türkiye’s advanced IT systems in legislation and its “huge progress in legislation in the past 20 years”.