Dar es Salaam, April 20 -- TURKEY: TANZANIA and Türkiye have agreed to promote bilateral relations by increasing trade volume from the current 300 million US dollars (over 770bn/-) to 1billion US dollars (over 2.5tri/-).

The target was unveiled on Friday at a business forum which brought together more than 100 Tanzanian business community members and over 200 others from Türkiye.

Officiating the opening of the forum, President Samia Suluhu Hassan encouraged Turkish investors to utilise the available opportunities in the East African giant, including the agriculture, tourism and manufacturing sectors.

She informed the business community that Tanzania, with over 60 million people, the majority being youths, enjoys a strategic l...