Ömer Çelik, spokesman for the AKP party led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, tells about the matter.
Turkey has submitted an official application to join the economic bloc Brics.
Tells about it Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spokesperson for the AKP party he leads Ömer Çelik.
– Our president has often expressed that Turkey wants to join Brics. The process has now started, Çelik said.
In addition to Russia, the alliance established in 2009 as an economic and political counterforce to Western countries originally included China, Brazil and India. South Africa joined it a year later.
The alliance decided to open the doors to expansion last year, and at the beginning of this year, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and, a little later, Saudi Arabia joined the organization.
Source: AFP