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Turkey’s Somalia Narrative: Partnership or a Lecture to a Country on Its Knees?

By Abdiqani Haji Abdi The Turkish ambassador’s recent remarks about Somalia’s future were presumably intended to inspire optimism. Instead, they risk sounding remarkably disconnected from the realities facing the Somali people. The ambassador speaks of satellites, oil discoveries, Turkish fishing fleets, mining, agriculture, roads and ambitious infrastructure projects—as though Somalia were alread