Relationship dossier
Turkey
Nepal
Relationship assessment
Friendly relations with cooperation in earthquake relief
Turkey toward Nepal
+20Turkey provided assistance to Nepal following the 2015 earthquake, including support for relief and recovery.
Nepal toward Turkey
+20Nepal sent a rescue team to Turkey following the 2023 earthquakes, providing practical emergency assistance.
Overall relationship
+20The relationship is friendly, with concrete cooperation in humanitarian response after major earthquakes. These actions support a positive assessment, while the known cooperation is not broad enough to characterize the relationship as a close partnership.
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 Nepal maintain friendly relations, with practical cooperation visible in disaster response. Turkey provided assistance to Nepal after the 2015 earthquake, while Nepal sent a rescue team to Turkey after the 2023 earthquakes. The scope of broader bilateral cooperation appears limited.
Key developments
Turkey provided assistance to Nepal after the 2015 earthquake.
Nepal sent a rescue team to Turkey after the 2023 earthquakes.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of broader bilateral agreements and development cooperation are unclear.
- Details of ongoing economic and institutional cooperation are limited.