Turkey's entry to BRICS ‘to benefit entire world’

MOSCOW, Sept 29 (TASS): The possible membership of Turkey in BRICS will benefit not merely Ankara alone but the entire world, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly (the parliament) of Turkey Numan Kurtulmus said in an interview with TASS First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman.

"Turkey's presence in BRICS will indeed make a much serious contribution to the cause of global peace. This is because Turkey is the country that simultaneously participates in many formats of international cooperation," he said.

Turkey is the member of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Organization of Turkic States, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, NATO and the candidate to the European Union, the politician said.