Turkey's Erdogan says wants India trade volume up at $10 billion per year

Reuters  |  ISTANBUL 

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's $6.5 billion annual volume with is "not enough" and should be boosted, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

"I think it would be beneficial to raise it to $10 billion," he told a joint conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi broadcast on state television channel TRT Haber.

Erdogan also said he believed would take steps to expel the domestic network of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating a failed coup in July.

(Reporting by Akin Aytekin; Writing by David Dolan; editing by John Stonestreet)

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Turkey's Erdogan says wants India trade volume up at $10 billion per year

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's $6.5 billion annual trade volume with India is "not enough" and should be boosted, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's $6.5 billion annual volume with is "not enough" and should be boosted, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

"I think it would be beneficial to raise it to $10 billion," he told a joint conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi broadcast on state television channel TRT Haber.

Erdogan also said he believed would take steps to expel the domestic network of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating a failed coup in July.

(Reporting by Akin Aytekin; Writing by David Dolan; editing by John Stonestreet)

(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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