Turkey's Venture into Africa
... example of how to develop sound interstate cooperation with the countries of the continent from scratch within a short period of time One can hardly fail to notice Ankara’s opening policy to Africa, despite its relative novelty, primarily due to Turkey’s increased activity in this area. The statistics speaks for itself. The President of Turkey R. Erdoğan has become an absolute record-breaker among leaders of non-African states by the number of visits on the African continent, Sub-Saharan African countries being the major focus. Until 2000’s these countries had been beyond the orbits of Turkish foreign policy. Stratfor Turkish Export to Sub-Saharan Africa R. Erdoğan made 30 trips to 23 African countries since his first visit ...