With 22 Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA) coordination offices in Africa, thousands of students from 54 African countries have graduated from universities in Turkey through the Türkiye Scholarships programme. Istanbul hosted the inaugural Africa-Turkey Partnership Summit in 2008. Shortly after I was appointed Foreign Affairs minister, I accompanied President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the second Africa-Turkey Partnership Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in November 2014. WAR ON VIRUSThat is why we wish to hold the Third Africa-Turkey Partnership Summit as soon as possible. African countries have taken timely measures against Covid-19.

Source: Daily Nation May 29, 2020 10:07 UTC