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According to international reports, Poland and Turkey are among the most developing 30 countries around the World (Turkey 9th, Poland 19th). Considering national income, Poland is the 6th largest and with respect to the attracting foreign investment 2th country of the EU (after Germany), Turkey is the world's 17th largest economy. In this study which is done because of 600th anniversary (2014) of establishing diplomatic relations between Turkey and Poland, these two countries have evaluated the following three aspects: (1) Currently and historical background, there are many economic contacts area (investment, foreign trade, and tourism, etc.) and 12 economic treaties which are still in force between Poland and Turkey. For example, Customs Union keeps on increasing trade volume around $6 billion. The recent global financial crisis didn’t disrupt the stability among these countries. (2) According to some global indicators, the level of development of the two countries is different. For instance, in terms of human development index (HDI) Poland is called as “advanced very high” and Turkey is called as “highly developed countries” while both countries are take part in group in terms of corruption index (CPI) are “medium clean” among the 176 countries, in terms of freedom index (IEF) are “medium free”. (3) Furthermore, these two countries have the similar trends in transatlantic due to historical proximity to each other. For example, in both countries, instead of EU, USA global leadership is more adopted.

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