Author: Tunc Demirtas

Türkiye has crowned its nearly 20-year-long win-win-oriented policy in Africa by successfully concluding the Ankara Process, one of the many constructive efforts aiming at contributing to peace, security and development of the continent. Preventing the crisis between Somalia and Ethiopia from escalating into a regional war became possible largely thanks to Türkiye’s efforts. The risks to Somalia’s territorial integrity, national sovereignty and independence carried the potential to turn this crisis into a full-scale conflict. Had it evolved into such a scenario, not only Somalia and Ethiopia but also the regional and global systems would have been significantly damaged amid a…