Erdogan visits South Korea and floats a partnership on Turkey's Sinop nuclear plant

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Seoul on Monday for a visit through Nov 4, his first to South Korea since 2018, and meets President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday.

Erdogan said South Korea could become a partner in Turkey's planned Sinop nuclear power station, whose terms Ankara has been studying with the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp.

Other areas Erdogan named

• Defence
• Semiconductors
• Artificial intelligence
• Robotics

He also named defence, semiconductors, artificial intelligence and robotics as areas for cooperation, and called for more South Korean investment in Turkey.

Bilateral trade target

15 US$ billion

The two countries are working towards a US$15 billion trade target, Erdogan said; their trade reached US$11.4 billion last year, according to Turkish statistics.