{"id":11211,"date":"2026-01-09T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:14:18","slug":"malaysia-sees-turkiye-as-important-partner-says-premier-anwar-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/uncategorized\/malaysia-sees-turkiye-as-important-partner-says-premier-anwar-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia sees T\u00fcrkiye as important partner, says Premier Anwar Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong>: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Thursday that his country considers T\u00fcrkiye an important partner, and that there is a history of relations between the countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is not always that we find so much trust and confidence from the leadership to the government and the people for so much understanding,&#8221; the prime minister said in a roundtable meeting with Turkish business leaders in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting, organized by the Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) and the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA), was attended by 46 Turkish companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting the history, including the Ottoman Empire, he said, &#8220;We had excellent times,&#8221; adding that with the background, T\u00fcrkiye and Malaysia are important bases for the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s role in the region, the partnership and the capacity, will expand the country&#8217;s activities, businesses and investments, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye has strengths, for example, the strongest in the defense industry, including drones, the prime minister underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed that Malaysia is also a very stable country economically, and it is getting vibrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, both countries should have synergy together with a focus on new technologies such as AI and banking, he said, noting Malaysia&#8217;s strength in energy, semiconductors and electrical and electronics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trade between Malaysia and Turkiye from January to November 2025 reached around $5 billion.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bISTANBUL: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Thursday that his country considers T\u00fcrkiye an important partner, and that there is a history of relations between the countries. &#8220;It is not always that we find so much trust and confidence from the leadership to the government and the people for so much understanding,&#8221; the prime minister [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}