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Turkey's opening to Africa*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2010

Mehmet Özkan  and
Birol Akgün
Mehmet Özkan
Affiliation:
Sevilla University, Spain Email: [email protected]
Birol Akgün
Affiliation:
Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Selcuk University, Campus, Konya, 42176, Turkey Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

As part of on-going multidimensional foreign policy changes in recent years, there has been since 1998 a revival in Turkey's relations with Africa. Initially rather passive, after 2005 this became a massive effort to develop relations with the whole continent. However, Turkey's Africa policy is unique in Turkish foreign policy, since for the first time it is driven and complemented by the activities of civil society organisations in and about Africa. Conceptualisation of Africa in Turkish society has changed dramatically in less than a decade, and the recent Turkey–Africa Cooperation Summit should be seen as part of this trend. Turkey's opening to Africa is not a short-term inclination, but is likely to develop and deepen in coming years.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 525 - 546
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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