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Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism: “We would like to abolish visas with Egypt”

Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ertugrul Gunay, opened the Eastern Mediterranean International Tourism and Travel Fair with his Egyptian counterpart, Zoheir Garranah in Istanbul. Gunay said that they wanted to improve the tourism relations with Egypt and were getting ready to take the necessary steps to abolish the visas with Egypt. He said that the tourism between the countries was lower than its potential.

Gunay said that Turkey was open to new projects and wanted to cooperate. He stated that they abolished visas with Jordan and Syria and now it was time to do the same thing with Egypt.

Source: habervaktim (Turkey), February 11, 2010

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