Although Erdogan’s 2020 Africa tour centres on the Libya crisis, it also aims to give a boost to Turkey’s economic cooperation with West African countries. During their latest meeting on Erdogan’s Africa tour, the Turkish president and his Algerian counterpart signed an agreement to establish the Turkey-Algeria high-level cooperation council. The final stop on the tour will be Senegal which Erdogan visited in both 2013 and 2016. Since the 2010s, the relations between Turkey and Senegal, a leading country in Francophone Africa, have been constantly growing. These multidimensional “win-win” partnership realms are expected to strengthen Turkey-Africa cooperation and establish lasting relationships between Turkey and African countries.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 27, 2020 14:26 UTC