المجلة الجزائرية للعلوم السياسية والعلاقات الدولية
Volume 18, Numéro 1, Pages 78-100
2025-06-30
Türkiye In Africa: The Search For Grandiloquent Ambitions In Complex Geostrategic Settings?
Authors : Iratni Belkacem .
Abstract
Abstract Many political scientists considered Türkiye a newcomer in Africa, particularly since its heavy military engagement in Libya, a civil war that has wrecked this country, following the downfall of its leader Gadhafi in 2011. This assertion omitted the presence of this country in large parts of North Africa during the Ottoman rule over this region that lasted from the beginning of the 15th Century to the early 20th Century when the Italians conquered the Tripoli Regency in 1912. This rapid and effective intrusion of Türkiye in Africa, occurred after the rise to power in 2002 of the Party of Justice and Development (AKP), an Islamic-conservative political movement, led by Tayyip Recep Erdogan. The strategy pursued by AKP relied on a model based on a subtle mixture of economic pragmatism and the exaltation of a symbiosis between traditional and modernist religious precepts. Türkiye conceives Africa as an important means in its status-seeking design in world affairs, although the geopolitics constraints seem to drive this country in a power balance whose dynamics lie in its geographic confinement (the Caucus region, central Asia and the Middle East). If Ankara does not seem to challenge the presence of other major powers in Africa, it aims mainly at developing a model of cooperation with this continent with no colonial lay out and with a focus on trade, military assistance and shared commonalities based on mutual trust and benefits.
Keywords
Türkiye ; Africa ; World ambitions ; Islamic model ; Economic cooperation.
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