On 4 April, at their meeting on the sidelines of the 15th OIC Summit in Gambia, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Hakan Fidan, who came to office a year ago, stated the importance of holding the OIC Summit for the Islamic world countries. The parties also discussed current Tatarstan-Turkey projects, with the mutual trade turnover having increased by 2.5 times and reached 2.9bn US Dollars in 2023.