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#Turkey: Erdogan more than doubles Ankara's embassies in Africa. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#Turkey: Erdogan more than doubles Ankara's embassies in Africa. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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0:00.0

At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads.

0:07.4

That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour,

0:12.3

because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or

0:16.8

serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone.

0:24.8

Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters.

0:35.3

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batsu with my editor and publisher of Defence and Foreign

0:41.2

Affairs and my colleague Gregory Kaplay. We're discussing Africa from the fog of diplomacy

0:48.4

following the coup in Niger to Turkey. I learned from Gregory's publication that the number of

0:56.0

Turkish embassies in Africa has increased since 2009 from 12 to 43. There is representation in

1:03.6

Cameroon, there's representation in Niger, there's representation in all of the troubled states

1:10.3

Sudan, Guinea, etc., Gambia. Gregory, what is Erdogan's thinking on this? What is the plan?

1:18.2

Well Erdogan has, when he's a megalomaniacal vision for Turkey, but he wants to make Turkey a world

1:30.1

power within his lifetime, which is quite finite because he's not young and he is not in good health,

1:38.4

but his plans across the board have been for really putting Turkey on the map in all areas,

1:47.7

in particularly in defence and intelligence operations and in aerospace. They've got a major

1:56.3

missile program, for example, underway where they should very shortly be able to launch their own

2:02.4

satellites from Turkish launch sites. They have an aerospace industry, which is producing

2:08.8

fairly credible combat and training aircraft, and particularly big and exporting very,

2:15.4

very effective unmanned combat aerial vehicles, UCABs or drones, and they've exported a lot of those

2:22.2

into Africa, particularly places like Ethiopia. They've exported just in the last couple of years,

2:31.0

some advanced light strike and training aircraft into the Nigerian Air Force. So they're moving

2:42.4

along. They're a big exporter of armoured vehicles to enter the armed forces of Africa,

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