Clare Brosnan, Ambassador of Ireland to Türkiye, visited İzmir Metropolitan Municipality. Secretary General Zeki Yıldırım, who hosted the meeting, emphasized the potential for closer ties, noting that cooperation would open up many new opportunities.
Following Mayor Dr. Cemil Tugay’s recent engagements in Ireland, Ambassador Clare Brosnan visited İzmir Metropolitan Municipality. As Mayor Tugay was in İstanbul to attend the event “Building Resilient Cities: From Policy Goals to Investment-Ready Solutions,” the visit was hosted by Secretary General Zeki Yıldırım.

Yıldırım: We Need to Strengthen Our Cooperation
Opening the meeting with an overview of İzmir’s potential, Secretary General Zeki Yıldırım emphasized the need to expand cooperation with Ireland. Highlighting İzmir’s opportunities in agriculture, livestock farming, and aquaculture, Yıldırım said “Given İzmir’s potential, we believe we should further strengthen our cooperation with Ireland. In particular, we could work together with our chambers of commerce and industry. You can see İzmir’s climate, which is milder than Ireland’s and more favorable for fruit and vegetable production as well as livestock farming. We have also made significant progress in aquaculture. There are many areas in which we could establish joint working groups to strengthen our cooperation.”
Yıldırım also highlighted İzmir’s importance in agriculture and livestock farming, emphasizing the value of sharing expertise in urban development, infrastructure, transportation, and urban renewal. Yıldırım said “İzmir is a beautiful city, but there is still much work to be done in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, and urban renewal. We want to make rapid progress by sharing experiences with cities that have already gone through these processes, gained expertise, and developed solutions. Cooperation would open up many new opportunities for us”.

Potential Areas for Joint Cooperation Discussed
Yıldırım expressed his willingness to pursue joint initiatives with Ireland and noted that potential areas of cooperation could include infrastructure, transportation, solid waste management, and improving the quality of education and life for students in cities with university. He also suggested exploring the possibility of establishing a sister-city relationship to help develop future partnerships.

“There Is More Room for Growth in Trade Relations”
Ambassador Clare Brosnan explained that her visit to İzmir had two main objectives. She noted that Ireland and Türkiye were celebrating the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations and added that the visit was also connected to Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU).
Emphasizing the potential to further develop trade relations between the two countries, Brosnan noted that Irish businesspeople operating in İzmir also saw significant opportunities for greater cooperation between the two sides.

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