President of Turkey congratulates Kazakhstanis on 550th anniversary of Kazakh khanate
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has congratulated Kazakhstanis on the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh khanate during his state visit to Astana today.
"Three years later I'm here again, but this time in the capacity of the President of Turkey," the Turkish leader said. At the same time President Erdoğan stressed that this visit to Kazakhstan is special because the country marks 550 years of the Kazakh khanate this year. "In this connection, I would like to extend my congratulations to fraternal people of Kazakhstan," Recep Erdoğan said. He also added that in 2009 Kazakhstan and Turkey established strategic partnership. The Kazakh-Turkish Strategic Cooperation Council was set up in 2012. Since then it has helped develop bilateral relations between the two nations.