Introduction
Türkiye-Africa relations have seen incomparably faster development in the last quarter of a century. In the process that started with the Action Plan for Opening to Africa in 1998, Türkiye declared the “Year of Africa” in 2005 and became an observer member of the African Union. At the First Türkiye-Africa Partnership Summit held in İstanbul on August 18-21, 2008, Türkiye was accepted as a strategic partner by the African Union. The second summit was held in Maloba on November 19-21, 2014, and the third was held in İstanbul on December 16-18, 2021. While the policy of opening to Africa, which was initiated in 1998, turned into a partnership policy in 2013, Türkiye’s relations with the continent gained a multidimensional and profound continuity, including political, commercial, military development, and cultural aspects, after the opening gained ground.1