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A New Initiative From Turkiye to Africa: Somalia EEZ
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A New Initiative From Turkiye to Africa: Somalia EEZ
The Agreement signed between Mogadishu and Ankara puts Turkiye in a new position in world politics that benefits its host country.
By Özgür Ekşi
The constantly developing political, economic and military relations between the two countries since 2011 are evolving to a new stage with the signing of the “Defence and Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement”. According to the Agreement, Turkiye, a comprehensive military base in Mogadishu, will protect Somali territorial waters for ten years and contribute to developing maritime resources.
The Agreement was signed in response to the Agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland, which was trying to secede from Somalia to establish a naval base. With this Agreement, Turkiye aims to be a part of the solution to one of the most critical problems of the region called the Horn of Africa.
Somalia is experiencing problems in the fight against some radical organizations such as Al-Shabab, which is on the world’s list of “terrorist organizations”. Turkiye made significant infrastructure investments in the fields of education, health and economy to revive Somalia with the aid that started in 2011 and took military training and cooperation steps to enable the country to “fight against terrorism”.
Turkiye has a large military base known as TÜRKSOM in Mogadishu. Somali Turkish Task Force Command has been serving at this base since 2017. The Turkish Embassy, the Turkish military base and many other institutions built and operated by Turkiye are among the targets of the Al-Shabab organization from time to time.

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