Turkey has hosted the heads of state from 16 African countries along with more than 102 ministers and representatives of the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for an economic summit aimed at boosting trade links.
Turkish weapons deals, including combat drone technology are also on the table.
Al Jazeera’s @Sinem Koseoglu reports from Istanbul.
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Nomore Neo colonization of Africa. It is great that Ethiopia and othe African countries have alternative partners like Turkey, China and Russia.
Turkey is supposing African dictators to kill thier own people. This irresponsible at the most. Stop Arming dictators
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What a stupid coalision, u dont see my african leaders, nobody loves us than our selves u stupid leaders, they see opps and takes them
I am Arnauti and I support the good people of turkey I also have family in Istanbul
Nigeria being the biggest economy should lead the way by having dialogue with Ethiopia, Kenya and others through the African Union to put their resources together to build infrastructure, buy military equipments, develop agriculture and food security together among other issues. They will save alot of money in terms of training, transfer of technology and keeping cost low. Africa being divided into 54 countries, each state cannot afford e.g. military equipments itself as it will blow its budget out of the water. Why do you need help from outsiders or why should African Leaders need someone from outside to Initiate such important dialogue on Issues affecting African Countries???? Seeing what the West has done to Ethiopia recently should be a WAKE UP CALL for all African LEADERS!!!! Have we NOT learnt anything yet from Ethiopia recently??? Or our leaders just do not have the COURAGE to stand up to COLONIAL MASTER to determine a better future of it’s citizens going forward. There is NO such thing as a free lunch. We desperately need YOUNG GENERATION OF LEADERS LIKE ABIY AHMED, PAUL KAGAME AND THE LATE JOHN MAGUFULI. WE CANNOT CONTINUE DOWN THE SAME PATH FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS WITH SAME TYPE OF PEOPLE AND LEADERSHIP, IT WILL BE A DISASTER!!!!!! We need to act on the next election by voting YOUNG people with credibility and sound policies for Africans and NOT for Western Cooperations and governments!!!!!
Nigeria is biggest economy based only population size , it has too much poverty and it’s military is small less advanced than many smaller African countries. Nigeria should lead itself first so should most other African countries
Africa is better off with Turkey as partner than any other countries in this planet
So one country summons 39 other countries.despecable
THANK YOU TURKY AFRICAN RESPECT AS SEVERN COUNTRY.THANK YOU AFRICAN PROBLEM SOLVE BY AFRICAN.
NO MORE!!!
Africans should build military together they will be strong continent.
Turki fake 😁😁😁😁🥳🥳🥳
I hope the African leaders of today see the benefits of a mutual relation with a honest and trustworthy nation like Turkey which will ultimately bring this rich continent to where it belongs.
You mean like Turkey? Bankrupt?
It’s Turkey’s turn to milk Africa 😂
Turkey 🇹🇷 is the best 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Don’t trust erdogan. He’s a snake.
Turkey should immediately get out from NATO (since they only help none so far), and allied itself with Russia, China, Pakistan & African nations in economic & military relations.
This moves would shake up Western Block so much since the increase influence of China and Russia’s beef with NATO expansion in Ukraine.
GOOD WORK TURKEY
“We love 💕 Turkey🇹🇷🇹🇷🙏🏼 One Ethiopia One Africa 🌍🇪🇹🌍🇪🇹 One Eritrea 🇪🇷🇪🇷💞💞🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 ETHIOPIA🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🌍🌍🇪🇷
Yes new genocides with made in Turkey.. Somethings never change
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Turkey is trustworthy partner for Africa 🇪🇹 ❤ 🇹🇷
one africa
Turkey is welcome in Eritrea & Africa
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Yes thenks afirica I love you 🇪🇹
The place I disagree with Edorgan is in terms of religion. His quest for Islamization won’t work and will never work.
Bravo sultan Erdogan…
I think all the Turkish people I have met in my life are honest, hardworking and just, I am afraid I cant say the same for others. Africa need to watch out for hypocrites and back biting self-serving imperialists
Erdogan is 100% imperialist don’t be fooled. He is a weak dictator now bc of dumb monetary and political policy. He invaded his neighbor Syria to take more land. Dreaming of the kalifate. Erdogan is imperialist. And a dictator.
I am in Africa:
Africa has been isolated from the rest of the world because of the careless racist western media fake news.
Secondly: let it be known: India has no influence in Africa.
Down down Erdogan
Meanwhile his country turkey is undergoing the biggest economic crisis .
Inflation had destroyed turkey , people are starving .
And this Islamist dumbo Erdoğan is making stupid deals lol
Wah ……even Turkey can now assembles all these hooligans…..I hope one day Kenya will summon all the European nations and our president will lecture them all in our soil….
I love this man
Thank you so much the good people of Turkey! A good number of my friends are doing business with Turkey’s companies. We appreciate your support. Long live the president of Turkey and long live the people of Turkey. Greetings from Africa
Soooooooooo True MR. Erdogan we Ethiopians respect you and never forget that turkey does for Ethiopia for this critical moment.
God bless NEW UNION AND ALL THESE LEADERS.
The world is changing about time people of color are standing up and realize the power you have and one day you will be the kings and queens. What a blessing🙏
Africa jumps from one mistake to another
Turkey is back and Africans are grateful go ahead and prosper turkey and be the light that humanity badly needed
When will Africans rather sit by themselves to solve their own problems than this shameful show of continue going here and there.That is what we can truly call Africans Solution to Africans problem
Turkey is a real African partners we proud to turkey long life for recip tayib Erdogan love and peace for Afroturkey for ever
African leaders should be vigilant dealing with Erdogan.
He wants to be another Colianizer.
Do not trust him.
Take all its resources n forget the continent lol
How can turkey be talking about democracy and human rights when they are dealing with dictators like Museveni from Uganda 🇺🇬 the whole summit is meaningless
The time is the great ottoman and the great Africa
haza al belad sharir ya afarica law la taarifun
Meshallah
Lol everything will be costing Ankara ten times more than their peers lol
Africa a failed Continent.. its biggest export .. its down troden peoples.. Minerals . Gold .. Fertile land … unfortunately its leaders couldn’t run a corner shop.
Turkey 🇹🇷 Somalia 🇸🇴 forming formidable ties 🤝
Africa needs a veto vote in 🇺🇳 security council
Because African leaders are corrupted,start war every single day and have no care what so ever for the people.
Why are all countries buying and talking about weapons,are they planning a 3rd world war during a pandemic?
I hope one Day Africa will shine like nowdays europe. Good Luck from Afghanistan. 🇦🇫
Turky best country
Stop supporting dictator Museveni in Uganda!!
turkey Goverments Are it’s real goverment god bless turkey
Erdoğan’s ambition to join the new colonisers of africa is off to a good start.
Why africa africa is bad bad
African leaders are always puppets, they have no mind !!
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Respect is earned when you organize “Organize African Problems to African Solutions” IN AFRICA!! Not in Turkey. Go home and organize yourselves fools.
Africa is not colony of Europeans from now on.Turkey will never Africa leave alone.Allah is enough for us.we love people since they are people.🇹🇷
tureke and Africa power in future.
Africa for Africans. Africa must be independent from the west. They take our resource and sell it back to us 5x more. We need to keep our own resources and share it amongst ourselves. Africa also, mush have one currency, just like Euros. 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
Turkey need help they can’t help other people lira is down 😅😅
“African solutions for African problems” but the meeting held at Turkey? Good weapons market for Turkey! Addis would be the better place to discuss about African problems.
Turkey desperate for new allies because it was rejected by europe?
I know turkey is a complication of a country but I see turkey as one who can help fightterrorism and destruction from the west in Africa. I would understand how they feel because even the west hates turkey too.
Turkey ❤ Africa
Al Jazeera is so vile
Hello i write from greece Ellada – Ellas argentina has food to give to its people and raw materials is the seventh country in exports of livestock agricultural products has millions of cows pork production of feed the turkey does not have the natural wealth of argentin weapons and constantly violates our airspace with fighter jets and combat exercises and forces us to make defense equipment that you do not need and we must have all our planes our ships out and run up and down and Turkey forces us texcessive costs for defense equipment to protect our borders from the aggression of toxic turkey while we have major deficiencies in the health education system in the infrastructure we can not cover them because the turkey forces us to waste all our money on defense equipment and .In the criminal regime of Turkey, everyone gives weapons, for example, USA, Germany, Spain, while they know that with these weapons that Turkey gives it, it commits war crimes and in general, Turkey starts to become aggressive with its neighbors and threatens us and makes war on us. river evros on our borders .sent thousands of Islamist illegal immigrants to invade us en masse, while wewe built a wall on the river evros and they can not pass now the turkey sends the islamist patronymics with planes of the Turkish Airlines and cooperates the criminal regime of Turkey with the criminal regime of Belarus for the invasion of Belarus foenters Europe and enters our sea with oil research vessels and the sea of the Republic of Cyprus and conducts oil exploration and threatens US, French, British oil companies that have signed contracts with the Republic of Cyprusexploits in the sea plots for oil and gas not to dare to approach, signed with the Libyan common sea and put in the Greek Crete and sent the map to the UN, violates the UN embargo on firearms and ammunitioterrorist jihadists Islamist mkthoforou, in the Nagorno-Karabakh region gave drones with American-Canadian bad German technology and killed civilians and destroyed houses infrastructure and committed war crimes with mercenaries who cut off the heads of Christians .war crimes with mercenary assassins Islamist jihadists in Kurdish, northern Syria, northern Iraq the Christian temple of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul-Istanbul in which was sworn for many centuries all the emperors of the Byzantine EmpirErdogan’s Islamic mosque is a place of worship for Islamists, while the UN, UNESCO and the entire international community have decided that the churches, whether Christian or Islamic, should remain churches of worship for the religions for which they were built and written in Turkishinternational community, in recent days Turkey has been sending constant notifications to the UN that the Greek Aegean islands do not belong to us because we have a small army on these islands because these islands are full of Turks and the Turks are there near usAegean armies and the largest fleet of naval vessels in the world and threatens us that if we exercise our right under the international agreements Montego Bay Mondengo Bay and UN that if we extend our sea to 12 miles as we have the right to make war and.invasion while we both belong to NATO and we are allies and all of Turkey wherever you dig you will find greek ancient theaters, greek temples of 12 gods, greek tombs, elk ancient monuments, ancient greek citadels, ancient greek and when.shows them to tourists the turkey lies to them that it belongs to the roman empire and not that it is ancient greek, because it can not live with that we Greeks from where we passed and where we lived left civilization, ancient statues, ancient tombs, ancient gods Ancient.stages, ancient markets and we gave to the whole world mathematics, poetry, democracy, theater, while the unique cultural heritage of Turkey in the depths of the centuries of Turkey is a long stain of blood from massacres and genocides .
God bless to Erdogan long live
Turkey is a good nation yes…but has nothing to offer Africans to be honest…they are just in the same category…..only thing Turkey has succeeded doing is building military vehicles and cheap drones….i say this without bias….i do love turkey and Turkish people.
Next time we must have a Nigeria-Europe Summit South Africa-Asia Summit make them feel how they making us feel…..
Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America are pretty much on the same boat right now as most countries in these continents and regions are increasingly authoritarian. The only country that has the best democracy in comparison with the west is Taiwan however it is just a small island country with limited international recognition. Not only that their presence is increasingly under threat due to an encirclement by China and its allies. So yeah that clearly summed up if these regions showed no intention to adhere to rule of law and democratic reforms there will be no advancement and progress being made.
قرآن میں اللہ تعالی کا حکم ھے کہ سچوں کا ساتھ دو:
سورہ توبہ (۹:۱۱۹)
يٰۤـاَيُّهَا الَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوا اتَّقُوۡا اللّٰهَ وَكُوۡنُوۡا مَعَ الصّٰدِقِيۡنَ ﴿۱۱۹﴾
اے ایمان والو اللہ سے ڈرو اور سچوں کے ساتھ ہو ۔
سورة الصف (۶۱:۲) میں اللہ تعالی نے خبردار کیا ھے:
يٰۤاَيُّهَا الَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا لِمَ تَقُوۡلُوۡنَ مَا لَا تَفۡعَلُوۡنَ ﴿۲﴾
مومنو! تم ایسی باتیں کیوں کہا کرتے ہو جو کیا نہیں کرتے۔
سورہ البقرہ (۲:۴۲) میں حکم الہی ھے:
وَلَا تَلْبِسُوا الْحَقَّ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَتَكْـتُمُوا الْحَقَّ وَاَنْتُـمْ تَعْلَمُوْنَ (42)
اور سچ میں جھوٹ نہ ملاؤ اور جان بوجھ کر حق کو نہ چھپاؤ حالانکہ تم جانتے ہو۔
سورة الأحزاب (۳۳:۷۰)
يٰۤاَيُّهَا الَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا اتَّقُوۡا اللّٰهَ وَقُوۡلُوۡا قَوۡلاً سَدِيۡدًاۙ ﴿۷۰﴾
مومنو خدا سے ڈرا کرو اور بات سیدھی کہا کرو ﴿۷۰﴾
Why can’t we have Turkish Africa summit in Africa? Turkey is just a country, Africa is a continent….
This isn’t a country african nations should rely on too much. Trade with them but don’t get to dependent on Turkey.
Don’t trust this french puppet africa union leader
Africa, Russia, China, Turkey, India, South America new united world power.
Things are changing before we know it…. No more western and US power….Russia, China, Turkey, India, Iran, Ethiopia 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽loading yes
Turkey we appreciate your efforts in helping stabilize somali🇸🇴🤝🇹🇷. Hoping with continued engagement in security we might be able to build infrastructure extending to west/central africa to facilitate goods.
Somali will be assigned to help with pleasure. Teleskkurler🇸🇴🤝🇹🇷
Support Turkey from Pakistan
Brothers forever 🇹🇷🇵🇰
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Fake News . Long live Africa and Turkey , China , UAE
Turkey has great respect for other nations. Its a mature country with great hate for hypocrisy, racism.
just don’t bring your weapons in Africa.
Selling weapons in exchange Selling immigrants to Europe. Turkey is A broker country.
The announcer said
Turkey hosted summitt form 39 African nations
But written on comments
Its saying 16 African nations
Indication of jealous and hate
Incredible these comments. How many paid for by Erdogan the little dictator?
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