BRICS Stalls Decision on Whether to Admit Turkey as Full Member
- Turkish minister said BRICS offered “partner-country status”
- NATO-member Turkey asked to join the BRICS earlier this year
Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the extended format meeting of the BRICS summit in Kazan on Oct. 23.
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Turkey has been invited to become a partner of the BRICS group of emerging-market powers, short of its expectation that it would be granted full membership.
“They’ve offered partner-country status to Turkey,” Omer Bolat, the country’s trade minister, told TVNet on Wednesday. “This is a transition period in the organizational process of BRICS.”