[1] Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Union for the Mediterranean and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

A letter written by Irish notables in the Ottoman archives explicitly thanks the Sultan for his help.

[10] The claim that he had wanted to give £10,000 first appears in Taylor & Mackay's Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel (1851), but the book is not referenced and no source is given.

A second source, dating to 1894, is more explicit: the Irish nationalist William J. O'Neill Daunt claimed to have heard from the son of the sultan's personal physician that he "had intended to give £10,000 to the famine-stricken Irish, but was deterred by the English ambassador, Lord Cowley, as Her Majesty, who had only subscribed £1000, would have been annoyed had a foreign sovereign given a larger sum…"[11] In 2011, bilateral trade volume reached 1,19 billion USD with an Irish surplus of US$485 million.

Aer Lingus, Ryanair and SunExpress also operate seasonal flights to some Mediterranean Turkish cities.