Turkish envoy Cebeci pays courtesy call on Japanese ambassador Sasaki in Ashgabat

Türkiye’s ambassador to Turkmenistan, Şener Cebeci, paid a courtesy call on Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Sasaki. Turkish and Japanese firms are already partners in Turkmenistan through a major gas-to-gasoline plant.

Türkiye’s ambassador to Turkmenistan, Şener Cebeci, paid a courtesy call on Hiroshi Sasaki, Japan’s ambassador to Turkmenistan.

The Turkish Embassy in Ashgabat thanked the Japanese diplomat for his kind hospitality.

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The Independence Monument in Ashgabat

Cebeci, who previously served as the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s deputy director general for Central Asia, presented his credentials to Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Aug. 28, 2026. He has held a series of meetings in recent days, discussing trade with Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Nokerguly Atagulyyev on Oct. 13 and visiting Chinese Ambassador Ji Shumin.

A Turkish-Japanese project in Ahal

Türkiye and Japan have already worked together in Turkmenistan. A plant in Ahal province that produces gasoline from natural gas was built by a consortium of Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Türkiye’s Rönesans under a contract worth about $1.7 billion. Construction ran from 2014 to 2019, and the plant opened on June 28, 2019, with part of the financing provided by Japan’s JBIC.

The first plant to use the TIGAS process on an industrial scale, it processes about 1.785 billion cubic meters of gas a year and produces roughly 600,000 tons of gasoline. In 2023, Rönesans signed a memorandum on a second such plant with Turkmenhimiya, Kawasaki and Itochu.

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