Turkey in Africa: A New Emerging Power?
Edited by Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu and Ali Onur Tepeciklioğlu
New York: Routledge, 2022, 273 pages, $54.99, ISBN: 9780367502218
Turkey in Africa: Turkey’s Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Federico Donelli
London: I.B.Tauris, 2021, 224 pages, $28.66, ISBN: 9780755636976
Türkiye Afrika İlişkileri: Tarihi Süreç, Yaklaşımlar ve Beklentiler (Türkiye-Africa Relations: Historical Process, Approaches, and Expectations)
By Serhat Orakçı
İstanbul: INSAMER, 2018, 276 pages, 60 TL, ISBN: 9786055260194
Introduction
Türkiye’s contemporary engagement with Africa comes from a long tradition of solidarity and mutual respect with Africa, quite different from the colonial legacies of the other global powers. The invasions of Africa by Spain and Portugal after the 15th century, as well as the colonization policies of Western powers like France, Britain and Belgium after the 19th century, were largely centered around exploiting natural and human sources. While Spain and Portugal c
