DISPATCHES
On the same day in Istanbul Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary General António Guterres were lauding a breakthrough agreement between Russia and Ukraine to secure safe corridors for the export of Ukraine's US$10 billlion grain stockpile – a deal that could ease chronic shortages in the Middle East and Africa...
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Vol 62 No 22 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Relations with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) regime in Turkey – the model for the PJD and other MB affiliates – have abeen rocky as Rabat reversed the flood of Turkish goods into the local market which had been encouraged by PJD-linked business leaders seeking closer links to Ankara...
Vol 62 No 21 |
- TURKEY
- AFRICA
After several years of gradually increasing its political role in Africa Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has his eyes on trade...
And in September this year President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Mali's President Colonel Assimi Goïta by phone proposing cooperation across a range of areas – including military expertise on fighting terrorism...
Vol 62 No 12 |
- MOROCCO
- SPAIN
That was apparent in Rabat's weaponisation of migration in Ceuta touching a sensitive nerve on the EU's southern flank just as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has done in exploiting the migrant crisis to Turkey's advantage...
The Trump administration realised that trying to force Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into line by making economic threats or imposing sanctions risked pushing him into Vladimir Putin's arms...
Withdrawal bidA potentially even more important development could be in the offing since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who saw Dubaiba's appointment as a victory is reported to have told a meeting in Ankara on 9 February that Turkey would withdraw its forces from Libya if other foreign troops withdrew first i...
A discordant note came from Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claiming it lacked credibility as the JMC does not have the legal power to implement or police a ceasefire...
There are suggestions too that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is now also soft-peddling on Sirte though more Turkish military equipment continues to arrive in Watiya and Misrata which Turkey also wants as an airbase...
The political backing of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for the UN-recognised regime in Tripoli is well-known but less so are the subsidiary clauses in the pact which massively extend Ankara's footprint in the eastern Mediterranean...