Relationship dossier
Turkey
Vietnam
Relationship assessment
Turkey and Vietnam have a strategic partnership and have cooperated on disaster response.
Turkey toward Vietnam
+35Turkey has pursued political and economic engagement with Vietnam, including elevating bilateral ties to a strategic partnership in 2023. The scope of resulting government cooperation is unclear.
Vietnam toward Turkey
+35Vietnam elevated bilateral ties with Turkey to a strategic partnership in 2023 and sent a rescue team to assist after the February 2023 earthquakes.
Overall relationship
+35The relationship combines a strategic partnership with concrete humanitarian cooperation, including Vietnam's earthquake-response mission in Turkey. The breadth and implementation of the partnership are not clear.
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 Vietnam maintain a cooperative relationship with political and economic engagement. Their ties were elevated to a strategic partnership in 2023, and Vietnam sent a rescue team to Turkey after the February 2023 earthquakes. These actions indicate practical cooperation, though the breadth and implementation of bilateral arrangements are not clear.
Key developments
Turkey and Vietnam elevated bilateral relations to a strategic partnership.
Vietnam sent a rescue team to Turkey following the earthquakes there.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of the strategic partnership arrangements are unclear.
- Details of bilateral cooperation beyond political engagement and disaster response are limited.