“Instead of facing a permanent pressure of answering the question of East or West, our interests lie with being able to say East and West,” Orbán said. Among bilateral achievements, the prime minister highlighted the opening of an Eximbank branch office in Istanbul and record-high Hungarian exports to Turkey last year.

Davutoglu said that ties between the two countries were rapidly developing and Ankara is ready to give all the support it can in energy supplies to central Europe and Hungary. He thanked Hungary’s lasting support for Turkey’s EU accession aspirations.

Answering a question, Orbán suggested that Hungary should “study Turkey’s formula for success” and mentioned for example the high birth rate of that country.

Turkey’s demographic figures show that “it is in Turkey that the family has the highest esteem in Europe”.

Turkey’s lesson is that “if we strive for success we must take the family seriously”, he insisted.

Before the press conference, the two premiers signed a declaration of intent to jointly renovate a 16th-century Turkish shrine in the Buda hills, as well as accords in several areas including social security, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, consumer protection and market control cooperation.

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