The two countries share close cultural connections, with both having a majority Sunni Muslim population and being predominantly inhabited by Turkic peoples.

Both the Turkish and Turkmen languages belong to the Oghuz subgroup of Turkic languages, which means that Turkmens can understand Turkish and vice versa.

Turkey is one of the 47 countries in the world that holders of a Turkmen passport can visit without a visa.

[4] As of 2013 more than 600 companies from Turkey had implemented over 1270 investment projects with about 1200 of them having the total value of 15 billion USD.

[5] Increasing economic cooperation between two countries has made Turkmenistan Turkey's first partner in Central Asia by number of projects implemented.