• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• Watch: Hungarian & Turkish Leaders Exchange Extravagant Gifts in Budapest

Watch: Hungarian & Turkish Leaders Exchange Extravagant Gifts in Budapest

• 19 Dec 2023 6:55 AM
• Hungary Matters

Video below shows Erdogan was given a horse by Orban during his visit to Budapest. The Hungarian PM got a Turkish made electric car from Erdogan.

The "grand plan" is for Turks and Hungarians to be "winners together in the 21st century", Viktor Orbán said after signing a bilateral priority strategic partnership agreement with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

“In the language of diplomacy, this expresses the strongest possible friendly, brotherly and political cooperation,” Prime Minister Orbán told a press conference after the agreement was signed. He said that although Hungarians had “lost the previous century”, the plan now was to “win the 21st century”, for which Hungary was seeking allies.

“That is what this priority strategic status is about,” he said, adding that Hungary and Türkiye wanted to work as closely together as the two peoples and countries possibly could.

Orbán said this was “a serious commitment” made in the hope that what had been laid out in the Turkish president’s programme, “namely that the next one hundred years will belong to Türkiye”, would come true.

He said Hungary would do everything it could during its presidency of the Council of the European Union next year to revamp the customs union between the EU and Türkiye as well as supporting Türkiye on the issue of visa liberalisation.



Erdogan arrives in Budapest to mark 100 years of Turkish-Hungarian diplomatic relations

Up for discussion between the Turkish President and Viktor Orban is Sweden's membership of NATO, which neither country has yet ratified.

Photo: PM's press office Benko Vivien Cher

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• Turkish Leader Erdogan Prime Minister Orbán

XpatLoop Media Partner

Hungary Matters

Launched in January 2014, this newsletter published on week days covers 'everything you need to know about what’s going on in Hungary and beyond', according to its publisher the state media agency MTI.

Explore More Reports

Only 'Relatively Safe Energy Security Position' for Hungary Over Next Few Months

• 21 Dec 2024 5:32 AM

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that Hungary is in a relatively safe situation regarding energy security for a few months, and it will be able to work together with the new government in Sofia to extend this positive period.



Criminal Proceedings Against Orbán by Opposition Party DK 'Nonsense in Legal Sense'?

• 21 Dec 2024 5:21 AM

The criminal proceedings the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) plans to initiate against the prime minister is "obviously nonsense in a legal sense", the head of the Prime Minister's Office told MTI.



Do Hungarians Trust Trump to End Russia-Ukraine War?

• 18 Dec 2024 1:51 PM

Fully 77 percent of Hungarians thinks that president-elect Donald Trump stands a good chance of ending the war in Ukraine in 2025, a survey published by Szazadveg on Tuesday has shown.



'Fake National Security Review' Distraction from Growing Prices in Hungary - Magyar

• 17 Dec 2024 6:32 AM

Peter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza party, on Monday lambasted the government's "bogus national security review" which he said was an attempt to divert attention from growing grocery prices, failing heating systems in hospitals and "the railway system falling apart".