The foreign ministers of Korea and Turkey met Friday on the sidelines of a security forum in Britain and agreed to bolster cooperation in nuclear energy and defense trade, officials here said, according to Yonhap News.
Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu also agreed that their governments should quickly launch talks aimed at forging a free trade deal to boost trade while promoting high-level exchanges, ministry officials said.
Yu was in London for an international conference on Afghanistan, where diplomats from some 60 countries gathered to discuss ways to help rebuild the war-torn nation, according to his office.
Following a deal last month that would allow Korea to build nuclear plants in the United Arab Emirates, Seoul has pushed to expand its exports of related technologies and equipment.
Turkey and Jordan have reportedly shown an interest in building nuclear power plants to generate electricity, with Korea pitching for the sale of its technology.
