Ahmet Akif Oktay
Turkey's ambassador to Budapest said Hungary sees Turkey as a key and strategic partner.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Ahmet Akif Oktay said Turkey-Hungary relations were in the "golden era", with no issues in the political agenda.
Oktay also said bilateral relations will be discussed during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's planned official visit to Hungary on On Oct. 8-9.
Erdogan will also attend the opening ceremony of the Ottoman-period Gul Baba Tomb, which was restored in cooperation of both countries, Oktay added.
Hungary on Thursday expelled a Ukrainian consul in Budapest in response to Kiev's expulsion of the Hungarian consul in the Western Ukrainian city of Berehove, the Foreign Minster in Budapest told a press conference.Peter Szijjarto also reiterated a threat to block Ukraine's EU and NATO accession.Ukraine expels Hungarian consul after passport row
Hungary sends home top Ukraine diplomat in tit-for-tat expulsion
Oktay said the ties between the two countries were "exemplary", particularly in the cultural area.
He said, "Hungary has many artifacts dating back to the Ottoman period. We restore these artifacts together with the Hungarian government."
"There is an exemplary relationship in terms of culture," Oktay noted.
He said Hungary has been following policies to expand its relations with the countries in the east and south of the country, which makes Turkey "a key and strategic partner".
Ukraine has given a Hungarian consul 72 hours to leave country after accusing his consulate of illegally issuing passports to ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.Ukraine accused the consul, who is based in the western town of Berehove near the Hungarian border, of "activities incompatible with the status of a consular officer".The expulsion is the latest in a series of diplomatic rows between Ukraine and Hungary, which have led to Hungary promising to block Kiev's aspirations to join the European Union and NATO."We hope that the Hungarian side will refrain from any unfriendly steps towards Ukraine in the future, and that its officials will not violate Ukrainian legislation," the foreign ministry said in a statement.Ukraine expects early signing of FTA with TurkeyUkraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin had warned in a Facebook post on Wednesday that "the events around the distribution of Hungarian citizenship in Berehove, let's say, do not add joy. They only complicate the already not perfect relationship between the two countries."Ukraine's move to oblige teachers to use only Ukrainian in secondary schools prompted Hungary's Foreign Minister last year to say bilateral relations were at their lowest point since the fall of the Soviet Union.Ukraine has sought greater integration with Europe since the ouster of a Moscow-backed president by mass protests in 2014 and the subsequent outbreak of a pro-Russian separatist insurgency in eastern regions. 
Ukraine expels Hungarian consul after passport row