Relationship dossier
Turkey
Barbados
Relationship assessment
Turkey and Barbados have a narrow area of formal cooperation through a mutual visa exemption for certain passport holders.
Turkey toward Barbados
+15Turkey joined Barbados in a mutual visa-exemption arrangement for holders of diplomatic and service passports, facilitating official travel.
Barbados toward Turkey
+15Barbados joined Turkey in a mutual visa-exemption arrangement for holders of diplomatic and service passports, facilitating official travel.
Overall relationship
+15The relationship includes diplomatic ties and a mutual visa exemption for diplomatic and service passport holders. That arrangement provides a specific basis for official contact, while the scope of wider bilateral cooperation is unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Turkey and Barbados have maintained diplomatic relations and concluded a mutual visa-exemption arrangement for holders of diplomatic and service passports. This is a concrete but narrowly scoped area of bilateral cooperation; the extent of broader government collaboration is unclear.
Key developments
Turkey and Barbados concluded a mutual visa-exemption arrangement for holders of diplomatic and service passports.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of the diplomatic and service passport visa exemption are unclear.
- Details of broader bilateral government cooperation are limited.