Turkey, Kazakhstan to boost cooperation

Attending a Kazakh-Turkish business forum along with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev yesterday, President Abdullah Gul called on businesspeople in the two countries to make mutual investments. Kazakhstan is the heart and the rising star of the Asian continent, Gul said and added, “Our bilateral relations have been further deepening and improving since the day Kazakhstan acquired its independence,” he said. “There are a number of Turkish businessmen operating in Kazakhstan. They mainly operate in the sector of construction. President Nazarbayev asked us to encourage Turkish businessmen to also make investments in the sectors of mining and energy," he said.