Turkey in Africa: Turkey's Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa by Federico Donelli

Author:Federico Donelli [Donelli, Federico]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, African, Diplomacy, Middle Eastern, Political Science, World, General
ISBN: 9780755636976
Google: W8sZEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 55315480
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 2021-04-08T00:00:00+00:00

16 ‘Turkey committed to a more inclusive G20 for an interconnected world’, Daily Sabah, 14 November 2014.

17 The topic will be discussed in more detail in the next chapter.

18 Turkey–Africa Economic and Business Forum overview document, available on the Forum website, URL: http://www.turkeyafricaforum.org/about-overview.html.

19 For further information on the different characteristics of the partnerships, see Cumming, Gordon and Tony Chafer, eds. 2011. From Rivalry to Partnership?: New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa. Burlington: Ashgate.

20 Shinn, David. 2015. Turkey’s Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Shifting Alliances and Strategic Diversification, 6. London: Chatman House. The Royal Institute of International Affairs.

21 Fehim Tastekin, ‘Erdoğan’s Africa Tour’. Al-Monitor, 28 January 2015.

22 Among the indiscretions was also the alleged tape posted in YouTube in which the voice supposedly of the Turkish Airlines CEO Mehmet Karataş tells Mustafa Varank, a close adviser to Prime Minister Erdoğan, that he feels guilty about the national carrier’s arms shipments to Nigeria, apparently to be utilized by the terrorist groups active in the area such as Boko Haram. Michael Rubin, ‘Tape Suggests Turkey Supports Terror’. Commentary, 20 March 2014.

23 ‘Turkish Airlines Denies Carrying Weapons to Nigeria’. Reuters, 19 March 2014.

24 Vicken Cheterian, ‘Turkey and the “Islamic State”’. Open Democracy, 23 September 2014.

25 ‘Illegal Arms Shipped from Turkey Seized in Nigeria’. Stockholm Center for Freedom, 24 May 2017.

26 Sıradağ, ‘Turkey-Africa Alliance: Evolving Patterns in Security Relations’. African Security Review, 316. doi: 10.1080/10246029.2018.1550429.

27 Ibid., 316.

28 Verhoeven, Harry. 2018. ‘The Gulf and the Horn: Changing Geographies of Security Interdependence and Competing Visions of Regional Order’. Civil Wars 20 (3): 333–57; Cannon, Brendon J. and Federico Donelli. 2020. ‘Asymmetric Alliances and High Polarity: Evaluating Regional Security Complexes in the Middle East and Horn of Africa’. Third World Quarterly 41 (3): 505–24.

29 Hussein, Abdirahman and Orhan Coskun, ‘Turkey Opens Military Base in Mogadishu to Train Somali Soldiers’. Reuters, 30 September 2017.

30 Rossiter, Ash and Brendon J. Cannon. 2018. ‘Re-examining the “Base”: The Political and Security Dimensions of Turkey’s Military Presence in Somalia’. Insight Turkey, 1–22. doi: 10.25253/99.2019211.09.

31 Telci, Ismail and Tuba O. Horoz. 2018. ‘Military Bases in the Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates’. Insight Turkey 20 (2): 308–25.

32 See, for example, Tastekin, Fehim. ‘Erdoğan’s Ottoman Dream Causes Storm in the Red Sea’. Al-Monitor, January 2018, URL: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/fa/originals/2018/01/turkey-sudan-cooperation-sparks-worry-in-gulf.html (accessed 20 April 2020); Amin, Par Mohammed. ‘Suakin: “Forgotten” Sudanese Island becomes Focus for Red Sea Rivalries’. Middle East Eye, 19 March 2018, URL: https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/news/suakin-island-sudan-turkey-saudi-arabia-egypt-394055164 (accessed 20 April 2020).

33 AA.VV. ‘UAE Taking Steps to Gain Control of Sudan’s Main Port’, Al-Jazeera, 20 April 2020, URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/uae-steps-gain-control-sudan-main-port-200423205443903.html (accessed 4 May 2020).

34 Keyman, E. Fuat. 2016. ‘Turkish Foreign Policy in the Post-Arab Spring Era: From Proactive to Buffer State’. Third World Quarterly 37 (12): 2274–87.

35 Yesilyurt, Nuri. 2017. ‘Explaining Miscalculation and Maladaptation in Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East during the Arab Uprisings: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective’. Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation 6 (2): 65–83.

36 Dawisha, Adeed. 1988. ‘Arab Regimes: Legitimacy and Foreign Policy’. In Beyond Coercion: The Durability of the Arab States, edited by Adeed Dawisha and William I.

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