Cuba–Turkey relations

Cuban–Turkish relations

Cuba	Turkey

Cuba–Turkey relations are foreign relations between Cuba and Turkey.

Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Cuba were established in 1952. Turkey opened its first embassy in the Caribbean in Havana in 1979.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey paid a visit to Cuba on 10-11 February 2015. This was the first presidential visit from Turkey to Cuba and was a milestone for the bilateral relations between the two countries. In November 2022, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez of Cuba paid an official visit to Turkey.

Official Visits

Guest	Host	Place of visit	Date of visit
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	President Raúl Castro	Palacio de la Revolución, Havana	February 10–11, 2015
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla	Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu	Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara	June 15–16, 2017
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu	President Miguel Díaz-Canel	Palacio de la Revolución, Havana	May 17–18, 2019

Economic relations

Trade volume between the two countries was 54.7 million USD in 2019 (Turkish exports/imports: 42.9/11.8 million USD).

Resident diplomatic missions

• Cuba has an embassy in Ankara.
• Turkey has an embassy in Havana.

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  Çiçeği Residence hosting the Embassy of Cuba in Ankara

See also

• Foreign relations of Cuba
• Foreign relations of Turkey
• List of ambassadors of Turkey to Cuba
• Cuban Missile Crisis