"The trade volume between the two countries was up 56% and reached US$573 million in the first half of this year," Asya told reporters.

Asya said that the trade volume between Turkey and Uzbekistan was only US$840 million in 2007.

The ambassador said that 534 companies were operating with Turkish capital in Uzbekistan, and also said that 122 of them were enterprises with hundred-percent Turkish capital.

Asya said that Turkish construction firms had undertaken projects in Uzbekistan worth US$940 million between 1992 and 2008.