In the presence of the Dr. Ezzat Ali representative of the Kurdistan Region Government ,Zafr Jaglian Turkish Minister of State for Commerce and Sinan Chalabi trade and industry minister in the Kurdistan Region , Dara Jalil Khayat, President of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the region and Kamran Mufti, general manager rating and granting leave in Kurdistan Investment board and representative of the ministry of finance and economy in the region ,president of the federation of investors in Turkey, with a number of heads of organizations and traders and industrialists ,a number of administrative members of Erbil chamber The first trade forum between Kurdistan and Turkey was held , in the hall convention center in Erbil on 30/10/2009. During the Forum Mr. Dara Jalil Khayat, as the Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Kurdistan Region welcomed the participants in the Business Forum, stressing that holding of this forum is an important step for the consolidation of trade relations between Turkey and Kurdistan. Then each of Turkish Minister of State for Commerce and Industry ,Kurdistan region Minister of trade delivered their speeches in the occasion of the forum ,in which they stressed on the importance of holding such a forum to serve the traders and industrialists in Turkey and Kurdistan Region. And during the meeting many attendants questions were answered on various economic and commercial affairs which concerning traders and industrialists in both Turkey and the Kurdistan Region-Iraq.