Turkey’s Africa Policy: Success Story or Inflated Narrative
Recently, there has been a notable proliferation in the news and analyses on Turkey’s Africa policy. African Business magazine made Turkey’s “expanding influence across the continent” a cover story to its most recent issue. The Africa Report analyzed Turkey’s engagement with African countries in its February edition. A number of other pieces were published by TRTWorld, Asia Times, Middle East Monitor, Institute for Security Studies, and The Star. Certain articles went as far as to suggest that Turkey could play a mediating role between Ethiopia and Sudan in defusing borderline tensions as well as between Somalia and Kenya in their dispute on maritime jurisdiction zones.
Such positive coverage of Turkey’s expanding footprint in Africa is certainly welcomed by Ankara at a time when the government has been subjected to harsh foreign and domestic criticism for its militarized foreign policy, rule of law deficit, and human rights violations. Stuck between a rock and a hard place on several fronts, Turkey is in desperate need of success stories, especially in the foreign policy domain.
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