MOSCOW: The possible membership of Turkiye in BRICS will benefit not merely Ankara alone but the entire world, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly (the Parliament) of Turkiye, Numan Kurtulmus, said in an interview with Russian news agency (TASS) First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman.
“Turkiye’s presence in BRICS will indeed make a much serious contribution to the cause of global peace. This is because Turkiye is a country that simultaneously participates in many formats of international cooperation,“ he said.
Turkiye is the member of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Organisation of Turkic States, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, NATO, and the candidate to the European Union, the politician said.
“It is also the country desirous to develop new alternative instruments of foreign policy,“ Kurtulmus stressed.
“This will enrich Turkiye in terms of foreign policy instruments and we hope participation of Turkiye in such organisation will promote the strengthening of global peace in conditions of the multipolar global system,“ he noted.
“Turkiye, having the geostrategic position, being the bridge between the East and the West, having the cultural past and prospects for the future, has entered the process of transformation into a regional actor and even into the actor playing an efficient role in the global system.
“We consider BRICS as one of important associations of the future multipolar global system, because of that reason, Turkiye’s entry to BRICS will not restrain the country but on the contrary, it will expand its foreign political capabilities,“ the speaker added.
– Bernama, TASS
