Türkiye wants to join BRICS, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during an event at the Centre for China and Globalisation (CCG) in Beijing, Report informs via South China Morning Post.
“Certainly, we would like to become a member of BRICS. So we’ll see how it goes this year,” Fidan said.
During the CCG event on Monday, Fidan said he looked forward to attending a meeting of the mechanism in Russia next week when foreign ministers from BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – will meet in the western Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod as part of the lead-up to the October summit in Kazan.
One of the topics on the agenda is expected to be the possibility of Türkiye, a NATO ally, joining the BRICS grouping.