Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Union for the Mediterranean.

[2] There is a Turkish Military Cemetery at Marsa, which was commissioned by the Ottoman sultan in 1873.

[2] An Agreement of Mutual Promotion and Protection of Investments and a Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of the Political Consultative Mechanism between the two countries was signed in October 2003 in Antalya.

[4] The Turkish–Maltese Business Council, and organisations with similar aims, give priority to promoting commercial linkages.

[7] Because Malta has one of the major ship repair facilities in the Mediterranean, and Turkey is emerging as an important shipbuilding and fleet owning country.