MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s president expressed his deep appreciation to Türkiye on Monday for persevering with to help his nation’s improvement, safety, and humanitarian wants.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made the remarks after he met with Turkish Ambassador to Somalia Ibrahim Mete Yagli within the central city of Dhusamareb and mentioned bilateral relations between their two nations, the newest safety developments, and different problems with mutual curiosity, in line with Somalia’s Presidency.
Yagli was accompanied by TurkSom Chief Commander Brig. Gen. Sebahattin Kalkan.
Camp TurkSom, positioned within the capital, Mogadishu, is Türkiye’s largest abroad army base and coaching facility. It has the capability to accommodate round 1,500 trainees at a time and has already skilled greater than 5,000 Somali safety forces.
“Through the assembly, the president recommended the distinguished shut relations between the 2 brotherly nations,” Somalia’s Presidency stated in an announcement on X.
The assembly got here as Mogadishu is campaigning to elevate an arms embargo on Somalia.
The embargo was imposed by the UN Safety Council in early 1992 following the collapse of Somalia’s army regime.
Somalia is having fun with a detailed financial, diplomatic, and army friendship with Türkiye that has been rising since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Somalia in 2011.
Since then, Türkiye has constructed an 80,000-square-meter (861,112-square-foot) embassy in Mogadishu, which is its greatest embassy in Africa.
Turkish humanitarian organizations are additionally working within the nation and helped avert a famine in 2022. Somalia has witnessed one of many worst droughts in 4 many years for the final two years.
Final month, the Turkish embassy in Mogadishu hosted a signing ceremony for a three way partnership settlement between a Turkish and Somali firm to construct a biogas energy plant in Mogadishu.
The plant may have a manufacturing capability of 5.6 MW/hour, offering vitality to round 40,000 properties by the top of 2024, in line with the embassy.
Somalia additionally anticipates the opening of a Ziraat Financial institution department in Mogadishu, which would be the first Turkish financial institution in Somalia.
