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Africa is a rising “multipolar continent” the place established and rising extra-regional powers are vying for industrial achieve and geopolitical affect. Turkey has figured prominently on this third surge of overseas curiosity in Africa.[1] Rooted in a redefinition of the nation’s function in worldwide affairs and a convergence of pursuits between state and enterprise elites, Turkey has developed an more and more dense community of ties throughout a number of dimensions all through Africa.[2]
The rising enterprise quantity of Turkish corporations in African building markets is illustrative of the progress Turkey has made in securing a robust foothold on the continent. Though Chinese language state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are by far Africa’s greatest builders,[3] Turkish building corporations have established themselves as succesful and aggressive gamers not simply within the Maghreb however in Sub-Saharan markets as effectively.
The Turkish building {industry} expands overseas
Turkey’s building and contracting {industry} has been on the forefront of the nation’s financial growth. The sector accounts for about 6% of the general gross home product (GDP) and employs 1.5 million folks. Its share of the general financial system is sort of 30% when factoring within the direct and oblique impacts on associated industries corresponding to building equipment, constructing supplies, engineering, and structure.
It has been 5 many years since Turkish contractors entered the worldwide market. In 1972, Libya grew to become the primary nation to which Turkish contractors exported their providers.[4] Between then and April 2022, Turkish building companies applied 11,243 initiatives in 131 nations with a complete challenge worth of $435 billion.[5] With 40 companies among the many high world corporations, primarily based on revenues generated from abroad initiatives, Turkey positioned third after China (78) and the USA (41) within the Engineering Information-File (ENR) 2022 High 250 Worldwide Contractors record.[6]
Through the years, the pursuit of enterprise alternatives in overseas markets by Turkish corporations has been each a development and a danger mitigation technique, spurred by stagnant home market circumstances and fortuitous circumstances in addition to by unexpected adversarial developments within the markets of operation.[7] On a number of events, extreme financial contractions and ensuing bottlenecks within the home building sector have impelled Turkish contractors to pay attention extra on enterprise overseas. This was the case within the early Seventies, when the depressed house market coincided with the booming demand for building providers within the oil-rich MENA area. It was additionally the case within the wake of the 2001 financial disaster, when decreased enterprise alternatives in Turkey compelled certified corporations out of the home market and turned their consideration to potential enterprise alternatives overseas.[8]
The development {industry} was among the many worst hit by a extreme financial downturn sparked by the Turkish forex disaster in 2018,[9] which despatched building prices hovering, inflicting builders to postpone some initiatives and sluggish the tempo of others. Turkey’s financial system was simply starting to get better earlier than the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic dragged it again into troubled waters, undermining the development sector’s restoration at house and overseas.[10]
Turkish corporations have additionally needed to deal with unexpected challenges in markets the place that they had established a foothold. The Russian monetary meltdown in 1998 led to the suspension of Turkish building initiatives. The flattening of oil costs and the calamitous 1990-1991 Gulf Warfare took their toll on Turkish corporations working within the Gulf, a few of which had been compelled out of business. Turkish building actions in Russia slumped once more in late 2016, as a result of political tensions between Moscow and Ankara. Across the identical time, Turkish corporations that had gained prominence within the Iraqi market had been sidelined owing to strained relations between the pro-Sunni Erdoğan and Shiite-led al-Maliki administrations.[11]
But, Turkish corporations’ opportunism, risk-taking, and resilience has nonetheless paid off. Feeding off the regional building growth within the Center East within the Seventies, they concentrated their actions in 5 oil-producing nations: Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, and Iran. When the Iran-Iraq struggle (1980-1988) got here to an finish, Turkish contractors elevated their quantity of labor in Iraq.[12] Regardless of the collapse of the Russian financial system in 1998, they remained on the forefront of the development market, taking a number one function in lots of landmark initiatives.[13] The truth is, Turkish corporations have repeatedly rebounded from adversarial market circumstances. The latest instance was final yr when, recovering from the pandemic-induced hunch, the Turkish building sector practically doubled the amount of its abroad initiatives.[14] The development {industry}’s worldwide challenge portfolio dimension has saved on rising, and the Turkish labor power employed in abroad initiatives has risen from 35,000 to 100,000.[15]
Turkish contractors’ skill to outlive throughout recessions and obtain regular development regardless of market downturns just isn’t merely a matter of fine fortune however is attributable to their versatile methods, comparative benefits, and rising capabilities. Turkish contractors entered the worldwide market as low-cost bidders to win tenders. By the late Nineteen Eighties, nonetheless, that they had begun to capitalize on the speedy assimilation of expertise derived from their partnerships with worldwide companies and emerged as a big power within the Center East and North Africa.[16]
Initially having served as sub-contractors, they regularly moved into administration consultancy, turnkey challenge implementation, and three way partnership funding;[17] and graduated from labor intensive and small-scale, to technology-oriented and large-scale initiatives.[18] They diversified into world companies corresponding to banking, tourism, building supplies, and cement manufacturing. And so they seized alternatives to penetrate new markets, notably Russia and Central Asia following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Along with diversifying their abroad markets, Turkish contractors have differentiated the kind of work they carry out. [See Chart 1.] Over time, the proportion of initiatives they’ve undertaken within the housing sector, which had dominated and nonetheless constitutes a big slice of their abroad actions, has shrunk whereas the share of initiatives requiring excessive experience, challenge administration abilities, and superior know-how (e.g., petrochemical amenities) has risen. A number of corporations have come to focus on challenge varieties corresponding to worldwide airports, railways, and concrete metro techniques.[19]
Chart 2. Worldwide Actions by Kind of Work (2021)
Supply: Ministry of Commerce of Turkey
The sample of Turkish abroad contracting companies’ portfolios, too, has modified considerably. A number of the bigger Turkish corporations have taken on the function of buyers, reasonably than solely appearing as contractors. Furthermore, they’re presenting extra complete challenge packages than up to now: finishing up market analysis and feasibility research; getting ready the monetary package deal for the proprietor; and designing, developing, and providing upkeep and restore providers for the power.
The defining function of the state
Geographical proximity and cultural affinities formed Turkish corporations’ strategic selections, facilitated their entry, and contributed to their profitable penetration of Center Jap and Eurasian markets. Equally necessary has been the function of the state. To make sure, authorities intervention within the building {industry} just isn’t novel, nor within the case of Turkey, is it new. However within the AKP period, the state has grow to be extra immediately and extensively concerned within the sector.[20] The truth is, the state has performed a defining function within the growth and internationalization of the Turkish contracting sector, particularly over the previous twenty years — the interval when practically 90% of Turkey’s initiatives overseas have been undertaken.[21]
When the Justice and Growth Social gathering (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AK Social gathering) swept into workplace in 2002, the nation’s financial system was in a dire state. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, then as prime minister and later as president, has championed building because the engine of home financial development and promoted abroad building actions as a way of projecting Turkey’s picture, energy, and affect overseas.[22]
Authorities patronage has been a vital think about aiding the internationalization of Turkish building service companies.[23] Building companies, particularly these aligned intently with the AK Social gathering, have been among the many predominant beneficiaries of easy accessibility to credit score within the worldwide market, tax incentives and exemptions, and relaxed public procurement practices.[24] Erdoğan has personally presided over the constructing and functioning of this patronage system, actively directing funding within the housing, power, and infrastructure sectors throughout Turkey. The important thing function that the state has performed — with Erdoğan on the helm — in favoring the development sector by rewarding corporations at house has been complemented by efforts to advertise abroad building inside the context of Turkey’s assertive and expansive overseas coverage.
The diplomatic and enterprise push into Africa
Consistent with his imaginative and prescient of creating Turkey a significant participant on the worldwide stage, Erdoğan has presided over a multidimensional technique for the African continent. Developed inside the framework of the “Opening to Africa Coverage” adopted in 1998, the technique is geared toward bridging the culturally and geographically “close to” Maghreb and the “distant” Sub-Saharan Africa.[25]
Spearheading Ankara’s diplomatic and enterprise drive on the African continent, President Erdoğan, who referred to Turkey as “an Afro-Eurasian state,” has personally employed and licensed using quite a lot of smooth energy instruments.[26] Quickly after Erdoğan declared 2005 the Yr of Africa — by the way, a yr earlier than China did the identical —Turkey was admitted as an observer member to the African Union (AU). Three years later, the AU designated Turkey a “Strategic Accomplice.”
Throughout his time in energy, Erdoğan has paid 58 visits to 32 African nations.[27] Turkish Airways now flies to extra locations (61) in Africa than another airline. The variety of Turkish embassies in Africa has grown from simply 12 in 2002 to 43. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Company (TIKA) has arrange 22 native workplaces, and the Maarif Basis operates 175 faculties in 26 nations.[28] In a bid to interact and additional enhance relations with African states, Turkey has constructed mosques and supplied abroad growth help (ODA) in addition to humanitarian help. Business counselors have been deployed throughout the continent to facilitate the Turkish enterprise neighborhood’s easy entry into African markets. Turkey has additionally cast safety ties with African companions: establishing bases in Somalia and Libya; coaching and equipping troops within the Sahel; collaborating in multilateral peacekeeping operations; and promoting arms.[29]
Turkey’s building corporations are brokers in addition to beneficiaries of this multifaceted engagement. They symbolize the strongest Turkish enterprise presence in Africa.[30] Most Turkish building actions have been within the Maghreb, with initiatives in Algeria and Libya comprising two-thirds of complete African initiatives.[31] However that image is altering. Turkish corporations have grow to be more and more lively in Sub-Saharan Africa.[32] They’ve fanned out throughout the continent, endeavor initiatives in Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Libya, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Tunisia.[33] Within the regional distribution of enterprise quantity, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 17% of Turkish contractors’ initiatives, surpassing their conventional market.[34] [See Chart 2]
Chart 2. Regional Distribution of Building Enterprise Quantity (2021)
Supply: Ministry of Commerce of Turkey
Yapı Merkezi, which has applied 62 railway initiatives on three continents, has accomplished or has initiatives ongoing in Algeria, Ethiopia, Morocco, Senegal, Sudan, and Tanzania.[35] Summa İnşaat constructed the Dakar Area, Dakar Worldwide Convention Middle, the Blaise Diagne Worldwide Airport (collectively with Limak), and the airport in Diamey, Niger’s capital. The Albayrak Group constructed and runs operations at Mogadishu port in Somalia, the place it has additionally constructed roads, a hospital, and the Turkish Embassy. The handiwork of Turkish corporations is seen throughout the continent, within the type of residential and enterprise complexes, resorts, conference facilities, sports activities stadiums, procuring malls, hospitals, and transportation infrastructure.[36] And because the late 2000s, a brand new wave of smaller-sized entrepreneurs has joined main Turkish companies in focusing on Sub-Saharan African markets.[37]
Turkey’s “Third Method”
The profitable penetration of African markets by Turkish building corporations, whereas a largely private-led enterprise, is embedded in a broader effort initiated, formed, and shepherded by the state through the AKP period, with President Erdoğan as its chief architect. Though Turkish building initiatives in Africa are discrete enterprise actions, they’re nonetheless intertwined with and complement different strands of Ankara’s complete engagement technique.[38] The deployment of that technique has not occurred in a vacuum. Quite the opposite, it has taken place within the context of intensifying rivalries involving established and rising extra-regional powers. Turkey’s efforts to pursue markets, challenge energy, and elevate the nation’s standing and status on the African continent mirror these aggressive dynamics — and the actions of Turkish building corporations in Africa are inseparable from them.
In making its diplomatic and company push into Africa, Turkey is working in a crowded discipline that, apart from the Western powers and Russia, contains China, Japan, and India, to not point out the Arab Gulf states. Given this scramble for a presence and affect on the continent, it’s not shocking that Turkey has sought to place itself as an rising world energy dedicated to and able to difficult established patterns of engagement there. Neither is it shocking that, in doing so, Turkey has introduced itself as a viable different to each the Western and Chinese language fashions.
Turkey’s “third manner” combines enterprise with growth and peace-building; shows a choice to ship help by way of bilateral reasonably than multilateral channels; rejects political conditionality; and emphasizes nationwide possession.[39] It’s cloaked in a story that depicts the Ottoman interval favorably as a “consent-based” association[40] and portrays Turkey as a “rising however virtuous energy” and a “pure associate.”[41] It’s a narrative that, with its emphasis on “shared prosperity,” a “partnership of equals,” and “win-win,”[42] deploys language mirroring that of China — Turkey’s greatest competitor in African building markets.
Neither Turkish nor Chinese language officers seem wanting to acknowledge publicly their intense head-to-head competitors for enterprise within the African building sector. It’s a competitors to which China, with a lot deeper pockets and having gotten an earlier begin, has dedicated far better sources than has Turkey, particularly because the launching of the Belt and Highway Initiative (BRI) in 2013. But, there have been circumstances the place Turkish corporations have underbid Chinese language rivals.[43] Furthermore, in settings the place they’ve operated, Turkish companies for probably the most half have been effectively acquired, gained better visibility, and enhanced their fame[44] — thereby arguably enhancing their competitiveness.
Nonetheless, there is no such thing as a denying the huge monetary capabilities that the Chinese language state has dropped at bear and stays able to deploying in assist of SOEs in African building markets. It’s exactly this aspect — financing — that has been the key issue drawback for Turkish corporations. As unbelievable as it’s that they’ll shut the financing hole, Turkish building companies have taken steps to slender it: choosing build-operate-transfer (BOT) and challenge funding fashions (for which Chinese language corporations not too long ago are exhibiting much less urge for food); getting into three way partnership partnerships with overseas corporations which have entry to personal sources; and securing funds from monetary establishments such because the African Growth Financial institution (AfB) and the World Financial institution.[45]
The Türk Eximbank, regardless of its personal restricted monetary capability, has collaborated with establishments such because the Islamic Company for the Insurance coverage of Funding and Export Credit score (ICIEC) and Japan’s Nippon Export and Funding Insurance coverage (NEXI) to offer precious assist to Turkish corporations in managing their publicity, overcoming danger focus, and acquiring cowl in opposition to challenge non-payment.[46] Moreover, the place they’ve competed and received initiatives in opposition to China, corresponding to in Rwanda, Tanzania and Senegal, Turkish contractors have utilized funds from worldwide establishments.
The emergence of Turkey-Japan cooperation in third-country building providers is a doubtlessly important growth on this respect.[47] The Japan Financial institution for Worldwide Cooperation (JBIC) and Japan Exterior Commerce Group (JETRO), along with the Türk Eximbank, have been exploring methods to reinforce cooperation between Japanese and Turkish corporations in infrastructure building in Africa.[48] Other than the potential tangible advantages that such cooperation between Turkey and Japan would possibly yield for his or her corporations and African companions is the fascinating query of whether or not such efforts are indicative of a shared curiosity in countering China and never merely in increasing their very own enterprise actions in Africa.[49]
There are different intriguing prospects for third-country collaboration as effectively. Progress in Turkey’s rapprochement with a few of its Gulf Arab neighbors as a part of the broader regional realignment underway might function a catalyst not just for a revival of Turkey’s building enterprise within the Center East and the attraction of Gulf funds to home initiatives but additionally for a shift from proxy political-military conflicts to third-country cooperation within the Horn of Africa and elsewhere on the continent.
There’s additionally scope for third-country collaboration between Turkey and the European Union (EU). Combining Turkey’s high-quality and cost-effective abilities within the building sector with the EU’s technical and monetary capability might pave the way in which for endeavor climate-resilient public infrastructure initiatives in North Africa.[50]
Conclusion
Beneath the AK Social gathering and spearheaded by President Erdoğan, Turkey has sought to current its type of engagement in Africa as a viable different to the creation of recent relations of dependence with Africa related to Western or Chinese language fashions of growth. Turkey’s building corporations have figured prominently as brokers and beneficiaries of Turkey’s bold, multidimensional Africa technique.
Chinese language state-owned and personal enterprises dominate the financing and growth of infrastructure and capital initiatives in Africa. Nonetheless, Turkish contractors, as a part of their increasing abroad actions, have succeeded in capturing a large share and rising enterprise quantity in African building markets.
The Turkish financial system has these days encountered stiff financial headwinds. Whereas development topped 11% final yr, annual inflation skyrocketed to 73.5% in Might.[51] The struggle in Ukraine has elevated challenges for the Turkish financial system, sending the prices of meals, power, and building supplies hovering. However it’s value mentioning that Turkish contractors have weathered earlier intervals of financial turbulence, performing effectively in abroad markets whilst they grappled with home challenges, and recovering from slack demand or different adversities of their markets of operation.
Turkey’s building giants are poised to stay a big power in Africa. By pursuing collaborative third-country building initiatives with a number of extra-regional companions, Turkey is unlikely to supplant China as Africa’s grasp builder. Nonetheless, this method might assist slender Turkish contractors’ financing hole, thereby enhancing their development prospects. It might additionally develop the vary of selections for African companions in creating the sustainable and resilient infrastructure they desperately want — and in so doing, fulfill Ankara’s promise of a “third manner.”
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[3] Kang-Chun Chen, “China is delivering over 30% of Africa’s huge building initiatives. Right here’s why.” The Africa Report, March 22, 2022, https://www.theafricareport.com/183370/china-is-delivering-over-30-of-africas-big-construction-projects-heres-why/; Charles Kenney, “Why Is China Constructing So A lot in Africa?” Middle for International Growth, February 24, 2022, https://www.cgdev.org/weblog/why-china-building-so-much-africa; Frangton Chiyemura, “Chinese language companies — and African labor — are constructing Africa’s infrastructure,” The Washington Submit, April 2, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/02/chinese-firms-african-labor-are-building-africas-infrastructure/.
[4] Amir Tavakoli and Sevket Can Tulumen, “Building {industry} in Turkey,” Building Administration and Economics 8, 1 (1990): 77-87; Heyecan Giritli et al., “Worldwide contracting: a Turkish perspective,” Building administration and economics 8, 4 (1990): 415-430.
[6] The Turkish contractors within the high 250 record: Rönesans, Limak, Ant Yapı, Yapı Merkezi, Enka, Tekfen, Onur, TAV, Nurol, Esta, Gülermak, Aslan, Sembol, Kuzu, Kolin, Yüksel, Eser, IC İçtaş, Çalık, İlk, GAP, Polat Yol, Alarko, Dekinsan, Gürbaş, Tepe, Makyol, Metag, Üstay, Yenigün, Summa İnşaat, Gama, NATA, Cengiz, MBD, Feka, IRIS, SMK, STFA, and Doğuş. See “40 Turkish companies amongst high 250 world contractors,” Hürriyet Day by day Information, August 21, 2021, https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/40-turkish-firms-among-top-250-global-contractors-167350.
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[18] Aytaç Gökmen and Dilek Temiz, “Building Enterprise as a way to Internationalize and Develop: A Crucial Evaluation of the Turkish Building Sector and Reflections on the Economic system,” Journal of Enterprise, Economics & Political Science 1, 2 (2012): 31-51.
[20] Ismail Doga Karatepe, Chapter 2, “Turkey as an Intriguing Case: Inserting Turkey in an Worldwide Context, in The Cultural Political Economic system of the Building Trade in Turkey (Brill, 2020): 17-32.
[22] It is very important observe right here that the construction-based, finance-led development regime helped usher in a protracted interval of financial enlargement. Nonetheless, over-reliance on the development sector loans denominated in overseas forex, heavy dependence on imported building supplies, and sensitivity to world downturns. Some megaprojects expensive and controversial, propelled by straightforward overseas credit score, questionable tendering procedures, lack of public scrutiny, adversarial environmental impacts, collateral harm to the nation’s cultural heritage, and neglect of the manufacturing sector. See: Andrew Wilks, “For Erdogan’s Istanbul Canal challenge, critics see few winners,” Aljazeera, April 16, 2021, https://www.aljazeera.com/financial system/2021/4/16/for-erodgans-istanbul-canal-project-critics-see-few-winners; Jonathan Gorvett, “Erdogan Is Digging a Gap He Can’t Escape,” Overseas Coverage, April 28, 2021, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/28/canal-kanal-istanbul-erdogan-channel-trench-protest/; Piotr Zalewski, “Turkey’s building growth seems to be over,” Monetary Occasions, November 27, 2014, https://www.ft.com/content material/910a4a32-5093-11e4-8645-00144feab7de; Carlotta Gall, “A Canal Via Turkey? Presidential Vote Is a Take a look at of Erdogan’s Constructing Spree,” The New York Occasions, June 21, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/world/europe/turkey-election-ergodan-canal-megaprojects.html; Alexander Sekhniashvili, “Authoritarian Infrastructure Advanced: The Turkish Story,” CSIS New Views in Overseas Coverage, Challenge 14 (December 20, 2017): 34-38, https://www.csis.org/npfp/authoritarian-infrastructure-complex-turkish-tale; Levent Kenez, “Turkey units circumstances in worldwide agreements in favor of businessmen near Erdoğan,” Nordic Monitor, July 6, 2021, https://nordicmonitor.com/2021/07/turkey-sets-conditions-to-international-agreements-in-favor-of-businessmen-close-to-erdogan/; Dryad International, “Erdogan’s Sinister Recreation in Libya: Building Corruption,” The Investigative Journal, January 28, 2021, https://channel16.dryadglobal.com/erdogans-sinister-game-in-libya-construction-corruption.
[23] Özlem Öz, “The Aggressive Benefit of Turkey,” chapter 2, The Aggressive Benefit of Nations: The Case of Turkey (London: Routledge, 1999).
[24] Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu, “Constructing a Aggressive Authoritarian Regime: State–Enterprise Relations within the AKP’s Turkey,” Journal of Balkan and Close to Jap Research 20, 4 (2018), 349-372, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385924; Sultan Tepe and Ayça Alemdaroğlu, “How Authoritarians Win When They Lose,” Journal of Democracy 32, 4 (2021): 87-101; Daron Acemoğlu and Murat Üçer, “Excessive-High quality Versus Low-High quality Progress in Turkey – Causes and Penalties,” CEPR Dialogue Papers 14070 (2019), http://www.cepr.org/lively/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14070; “5 pro-gov’t building corporations granted tax incentives 128 occasions in final decade,” duvaR.com, December 24, 2020, https://www.duvarenglish.com/five-turkish-pro-govt-construction-companies-granted-tax-incentives-128-times-in-last-decade-news-55618.
[25] Mehmet Özkan and Birol Akgün, “Turkey’s Opening to Africa,” The Journal of Trendy African Research 48, 4 (2010): 525-546. doi:10.1017/S0022278X10000595; Federico Donelli, “Turkey’s involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa: an empirical evaluation of multitrack method,” Journal of Up to date African Research 40, 1 (2022): 18-33. DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1900551; Mehmet Özkan, “A New Actor or Passer-By? The Political Economic system of Turkey’s Engagement with Africa,” Journal of Balkan and Close to Jap Research 14, 1 (2012): 113-133, https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2012.656968; Abdinor Dahir, “The Turkey-Africa Bromance: Key Drivers, Company, and Prospects,” Perception Turkey 23, 4 (2021): 27-38, https://www.insightturkey.com/file/1414/the-turkey-africa-bromance-key-drivers-agency-and-prospects; Chigoze Enwere and Mesut Yilmaz, “Turkey’s Strategic Relations with Africa: Traits and Challenges,” Journal of Economics and Political Economic system 1, 2 (2014): 216-230.
[29] Brandon J. Cannon, “Turkey’s Protection Trade and Army Gross sales in Sub-Saharan Africa: Traits, Rationale, and Outcomes,” TRENDS Analysis and Advisory, December 20, 2021, https://trendsresearch.org/perception/turkeys-defense-industry-and-military-sales-in-sub-saharan-africa-trends-rationale-and-results/; Elif Selin Calik, “Turkey’s drones diplomacy in Africa,” Al-Monitor, January 7, 2022, https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220107-turkeys-drones-diplomacy-in-africa/; Ash Rossiter and Brendan J. Cannon, “Re-Inspecting the ‘Base’: The Political and Safety Dimensions of Turkey’s Army Presence in Somalia,” Perception Turkey 21, 1 (2019): 167-188, https://www.jstor.org/secure/26776053.
[40] Lerna Okay. Yanık, “Setting up Turkish ‘exceptionalism’: Discourses of Liminality and Hybridity in post-Chilly Warfare Turkish Overseas Coverage,” Political Geography 30, 2 (2011): 80-89.
[41] Mark Langan, “Virtuous Energy Turkey in sub-Saharan Africa: The “Neo-Ottoman” Problem to the European Union,” Third World Quarterly 38, 6 (2017): 1400; and Julia Harte, “Turkey Shocks Africa,” World Coverage Journal 29, 4 (2012): 27-38.
[43] Yunnan Chen, “Laying the Tracks: The political financial system of railway growth in Ethiopia’s railway sector and implications for know-how switch,” Boston College International Growth Coverage Middle, GCI Working Paper 14 (January 2021), https://www.bu.edu/gdp/information/2021/01/GCI_WP_014_Yunnan_Chen.pdf; “Tanzania courts Turkey for its rail megaproject, casting doubt on China’s function,” International Building Evaluate, January 24, 2017, https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/tanzania-courts-turkey-its-rail-megaproject-castin/; and “Turkish agency wins contract to complete constructing Kigali centre,” The East African, April 25, 2015, https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/information/east-africa/turkish-firm-wins-contract-to-finish-building-kigali-centre–1335240.
[44] These actors embrace: Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Company (TIKA), The Overseas Financial Relations Board of Turkey (DEIK), Maarif Basis Colleges, Yunus Emre Institute, Crimson Crescent, Anadolu Company, and Diyanet Basis. See Chen, “Laying the Tracks: The political financial system of railway growth in Ethiopia’s railway sector and implications for know-how switch”; “Turkish Building Firms Assist to Transfer Africa Ahead, Actual Property Monitor Worldwide, March 16, 2020; Sinan Tavsan, “Turkey’s push into Africa has China trying over its shoulder,” Nikkei Asia, September 15, 2021, https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Worldwide-relations/Indo-Pacific/Turkey-s-push-into-Africa-has-China-looking-over-its-shoulder; Özlem Öz, “Sources of aggressive benefit of Turkish building corporations in worldwide markets,” Building Administration and Economics 19, 2 (2001): 135-144. DOI: 10.1080/01446190010009988; and Altay Atli, “Businessmen as Diplomats: The Function of Enterprise Associations in Turkey’s Overseas Financial Coverage,” Perception Turkey 13, 1 (2011): 108-128.
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