{"id":4061,"date":"2018-08-20T23:08:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2018-08-20T23:08:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:08:34","slug":"why-erdogans-so-quiet-about-turkish-expansion-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/20\/why-erdogans-so-quiet-about-turkish-expansion-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY ERDOGAN\u2019S SO QUIET ABOUT TURKISH EXPANSION IN AFRICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1973\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Al-Monitor<\/p>\n<p>By Pinar Tremblay<\/p>\n<p>As the diplomatic tug-of-war between the United States and Turkey escalates, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is lining up new friends. In early August, Erdogan\u2019s 100-day action plan identified new markets in China, Mexico, India and Russia. It did not mention Africa, despite the \u201cAfrican continent opening\u201d Erdogan sought in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Frequent headlines in the mainstream media have celebrated Erdogan as &#8220;the best friend of Africa.\u201d As president he has visited 21 African countries on more than 30 trips.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Turkey&#8217;s state Anadolu Agency reported on impressive progress from 2003 to 2017. For example, Turkey\u2019s investment has increased from $100 million to $6.5 billion, the number of its embassies from 12 to 41. Turkish Airlines flies to 52 destinations in 33 African countries. Construction companies have invested in several projects worth $55 million.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2018\/08\/turkey-subtle-expansion-in-africa.html#ixzz5OlL9jvuD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Al-Monitor By Pinar Tremblay As the diplomatic tug-of-war between the United States and Turkey escalates, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is lining up new friends. In early August, Erdogan\u2019s 100-day action plan identified new markets in China, Mexico, India and Russia. It did not mention Africa, despite the \u201cAfrican continent opening\u201d Erdogan sought in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/20\/why-erdogans-so-quiet-about-turkish-expansion-in-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHY ERDOGAN\u2019S SO QUIET ABOUT TURKISH EXPANSION IN AFRICA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}