Italy’s Ambassador to Ankara Giuseppe Manzo and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar opened the Turkish-Italian energy business matchmaking forum.
More than 80 companies attended the forum, organized with the participation of Italian development bank CDP, export credit agency SACE, the Italian Trade Agency and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), while more than 100 bilateral business meetings were held, the Italian Embassy said.

The Embassy said the forum aimed to advance the energy partnership between the two countries toward new goals. Italy is one of Türkiye’s largest trading partners in Europe.