Author: Gozde Sogutlu

by Gozde Sogutlu With the 1998 African Opening Policy, Turkey has significantly increased its engagement in Africa and adopted a multifaceted approach aiming to strengthen its presence in the continent in economic, cultural, defence and development fields. Turkey has accelerated its multifaceted foreign policy approach with the declaration of 2005 as the Year of Africa, and since then, Turkey has succeeded in gaining the trust of the countries of the continent through development aid, trade, security and defence agreements reflecting its smart power capacity. One of the regions in the continent where Turkey has established unilateral as well as multilateral…