Turkish Ambassador Pledges that Ankara Will Continue Its Support for Somalia.

Turkish Ambassador Pledges that Ankara will continue its support for Somalia.

Turkey’s Ambassador to Somalia, Alper Aktaş, has announced the conclusion of his tenure in Mogadishu, stating that he is moving to a new post in Skopje, North Macedonia. Aktaş, who has served as ambassador to Somalia since March 2024, expressed that he considered it a great honor to work on strengthening relations between the two […]

Turkey’s Somalia Narrative: Partnership or a Lecture to a Country on Its Knees?

By Abdiqani Haji Abdi The Turkish ambassador’s recent remarks about Somalia’s future were presumably intended to inspire optimism. Instead, they risk sounding remarkably disconnected from the realities facing the Somali people. The ambassador speaks of satellites, oil discoveries, Turkish fishing fleets, mining, agriculture, roads and ambitious infrastructure projects—as though Somalia were already a stable country...