Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will pay an official visit to Singapore on Tuesday for talks on trade, defense cooperation and regional security, Turkish Foreign Ministry sources told the state-run Anadolu news agency on Monday.
Fidan is expected to be received by Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong during his first official visit to the city-state.
He is also scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and K. Shanmugam, the home affairs minister and coordinating minister for national security.
Fidan is expected to deliver a speech at the Raffles Lectures, an event organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
The talks are expected to focus on increasing bilateral trade under a free trade agreement signed in 2015 and in force since 2017.
The agreement is among Turkey’s most comprehensive free trade deals because it covers goods, services, investment and public procurement.
Turkey and Singapore elevated relations to a strategic partnership in 2014.
Bilateral trade reached $1.07 billion in 2025, according to Turkish data.
Singapore’s investment in Turkey has reached about $11 billion since 2002, including $1 billion in direct investment and $10 billion in portfolio investment.
Fidan is expected to discuss steps to deepen defense industry cooperation, an area Ankara sees as gaining value because of security developments in Asia and surrounding regions.
The talks are also expected to cover cooperation in renewable energy, electric vehicles, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, digitalization, financial technology and food products made according to Islamic dietary rules.
Turkish officials said Fidan will stress the role of Turkey and Singapore in energy security and trade routes because both countries sit near strategic transport corridors.
Fidan is also expected to discuss cooperation in the United Nations, the Group of 20 and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Turkey became a sectoral dialogue partner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 2017 and has said it wants to upgrade that relationship to dialogue partner status.
The talks are expected to include the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Gaza, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, Syria, the South China Sea and other regional issues.