{"id":62178,"date":"2013-01-03T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T07:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=62178"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:04:10","slug":"iran-turkey-trade-rises-40-tops-20-8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/01\/03\/iran-turkey-trade-rises-40-tops-20-8b\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Turkey trade rises 40%, tops $20.8b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; The value of trade between Iran and Turkey surpassed $20.8 billion in the first 11 months of 2012, which was a rise of 40 percent compared to the same period in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62180\" alt=\"c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_04_00(4)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_04_004.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_04_004.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_04_004-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/>Turkey\u2019s exports to Iran amounted to $7 billion in the aforementioned period, mainly due to exports of gold to Iran, IRNA reported, citing data released recently by the Turkish Statistical Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Oil, gas, and petrochemicals accounted for the lion\u2019s share of Iran\u2019s exports to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>On December 11, 2012, Iran\u2019s ambassador to Turkey said the value of trade between Tehran and Ankara could potentially increase fivefold to as high as $100 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Bahman Hosseinpour added that ample investment opportunities await Turkish investors in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Bilateral trade exceeded $16 billion in 2011, and the two countries plan to increase the volume of their bilateral trade to $30 billion by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>via Iran-Turkey trade rises 40%, tops $20.8b &#8211; Tehran Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; The value of trade between Iran and Turkey surpassed $20.8 billion in the first 11 months of 2012, which was a rise of 40 percent compared to the same period in 2011. Turkey\u2019s exports to Iran amounted to $7 billion in the aforementioned period, mainly due to exports of gold to Iran, IRNA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":62180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,62],"tags":[4010],"class_list":["post-62178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-iran_","tag-trade-with-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}