🇹🇷 🌍 — Turkey's rapid diplomatic expansion into Africa

After recently mediating a diplomatic rift between Ethiopia and Somalia, Turkey has been quickly establishing itself as a key player within many verticals of African geopolitics

Currently, Turkish companies on the African continent are involved with:

🚂 Construction & financing of new rail lines throughout East Africa

⚡️ Supplying power to coastal cities throughout West Africa

🚁 Supplying cheap drones and other weaponry to surveille and combat terrorism

🛢 Offshore oil & gas exploration in Somalia

💲 Purchasing African oil & gas from new producers

🇱🇾 Forcing a cease-fire agreement in the Libyan civil war


As of 2023, Turkish contractors were involved in $85.5 billion worth of projects. In parallel, in 2002, the country had embassies in just 10 African nations. By 2023, that number had soared to over 40.

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🇦🇷💥🌐 — Patricia Bullrich responded firmly to Amnesty International for criticizing Argentina and its protocols against protesters and militant invaders while remaining silent about the systematic human rights violations in Venezuela:

"Amnesty International has no shame, and while human rights are systematically violated in Venezuela, they choose to criticize a liberal democracy like Argentina.

From their comfortable seats in London, they try to lecture us while we've endured 25 years of mafia-like blockades extorting the Argentine people. They don't care about the people; they only defend the criminals profiting from chaos!

With our protocol, the streets are once again for law-abiding Argentines. To the whining progressives: you won't stop us! The era of extortion and blackmail in our country is over!"

Patricia Bullrich (@PatoBullrich) 🖇