{"id":16643,"date":"2026-07-05T06:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/05\/erdogan-sharif-5-billion-trade-turkey-pakistan-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:12:16","slug":"erdogan-sharif-5-billion-trade-turkey-pakistan-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/05\/erdogan-sharif-5-billion-trade-turkey-pakistan-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan and Sharif Agree on $5 Billion Trade Expansion Between Turkey and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara and Islamabad have agreed to enhance economic, defense, and regional cooperation, aiming to increase bilateral trade volume to five billion dollars. He made these remarks following a meeting with Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>According to Erdogan, the discussions covered bilateral relations, regional developments, and certain global issues. On Saturday, July 4, Erdogan wrote in a message on the social media platform X that both parties emphasized deepening partnerships across various sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish president also stated that his country supports any initiative that reduces tensions and resolves disputes through diplomacy. He added that they are closely monitoring Israeli movements, which he said are intended to undermine the Islamabad agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Erdogan&#8217;s statements, the two countries intend to expand cooperation in energy, transportation, strategic minerals, and information technology sectors. He further emphasized that new projects in defense collaboration are underway and that this process could help strengthen Pakistan&#8217;s capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey and Pakistan agree to boost trade to $5 billion and enhance cooperation in defense, energy, and technology, following Erdogan-Sharif meeting in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}