In a parliamentary debate in Ankara on 22 July opposition parties demanded without success to know the number of troops that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan planned to send to Somalia under a two-year extension of the mandate allowing the country's armed forces to operate in Somalia from July 27 2026 to July 2028...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has played his cards well repositioning Turkey within a Pakistan-Saudi Arabia-Egypt alliance...

When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in February he raised questions about Ethiopia's rumoured involvement in Sudan's war and the alleged presence of a training camp for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary on Ethiopian soil...

Diplomatic observers note Israeli President Isaac Herzog's late-February visit to Addis as a signal of political encouragement while visits by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and senior Saudi officials are seen as attempts to dissuade escalation...

He knows his allies Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Djibouti President Ismaël Omar Guelleh and Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki will help him do so...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is determined to demonstrate his commitment to the defence agreement signed in 2024...

Then if the survey shows commercial quantities of oil as everyone in Mogadishu expects President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will send the troops and equipment to achieve what the SNA could not: a full offensive against the jihadists...

Disregarding his domestic woes President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may take the diplomatic lead in the region by convening representatives from Chad and Sudan to negotiate a modus vivendi...

One highly positive development is the accord signed in Ankara between Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud brokered personally by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in December which has calmed the crisis (AC Vol 65 No 14 Abiy Ahmed's sovereignty deal with Muse Abdi risks more regional turmoil)...