ASTANA (TCA) — Chairman of the Board of Kazakh Invest national company for investment support and promotion, Saparbek Tuyakbayev, paid a working visit to Turkey on February 23-24, where he met with leaders of six major Turkish companies — KOÇ Holding, YILDIZLAR SSS Holding, YILDIRIM Holding, KİBAR Holding, SABANCI Holding, and DAL Holding Investment, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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KABUL (TCA) — Turkey has taken control of 12 schools in Afghanistan run by an organization linked to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for a failed coup in Turkey in 2016, RFE/RL reports.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The huge potential of Uzbekistan in the sphere of tourism has not been used effectively and fully for many years. This was said at a Government meeting on tourism held on February 22 under the chairmanship of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the Jahon information agency reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — To further increase the volume of rail transit traffic along the East-West transport corridor via Kazakhstan, it is necessary to increase the speed of trains on the entire route from the point of departure to the destination point to not less than 1200 km per day or more, Maksat Kabashev, vice president for development of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) national railways company, said last week at the International railway business forum “Strategic partnership 1520: Central Europe” in Vienna, held with the participation of heads of national railway companies, transport officials of the European Commission, representatives of transport, logistics, machine-building and construction companies of the EU and CIS countries, KTZ reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The 8th meeting of the Intergovernmental Kazakh-Italian Working Group for Industrial and Economic Cooperation and Exchange and an Italy-Kazakhstan business forum took place earlier this month in Rome, with the support of Kazakh Invest national company for investment support and promotion. The Kazakh delegation also included representatives of the agrarian sector, who studied the Italian experience of crops cultivation, discussed ways to develop joint investment projects, and visited Italian agricultural enterprises.

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