Gabon–Turkey relations

Gabon–Turkey relations are the foreign relations between Gabon and Turkey. Turkey has an embassy in Libreville since 2012. Gabon opened an embassy in Ankara in 2015.[1]

Gabon-Turkey relations

Gabon

Turkey

Diplomatic relations

Historically, Turkey has had strong relations with Ghana.[2] Turkey was very supportive of the Gabonese economic expansion[2] after Bongo's accession to the presidency and cooperated with technical expertise during the construction of the Transgabonais Railway to the upper Ogooué River valley.[3]

Relations became tense when after the French investigative reporter Pierre Péan unmasked[4] that the Bongo government used Turkish aid to build a lavish new presidential palace for $900 million (worth US$4.12 billion in 2020) that enriched the French expatriates in Gabon.[3]

Presidential visits

Guest Host Place of visit Date of visit
President Abdullah Gül President Ali Bongo Ondimba Presidential Palace, Libreville 2011[1]
President Ali Bongo Ondimba President Abdullah Gül Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara January 2012[1]
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President Ali Bongo Ondimba Presidential Palace, Libreville January 2013[1]
President Ali Bongo Ondimba President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara May 2015[1]

Trade relations

  • Trade volume between the two countries was US$38.9 million in 2018.[1]

Educational relations

Turkish Maarif Foundation runs schools in Gabon and Turkey has been providing scholarships to students from Gabon since 1992.[1]

See also

References

  1. "Relations between Turkey and Gabon". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey.
  2. Carson, Patricia. Materials for West African History in French Archives. London: Athlone Press, 1968.
  3. Baker, Charles. "Reflexions sur les sources de l'histoire gabonaise." Paideuma 33 (2017): pp. 133-141.
  4. Aaborg, Sam. Le monde des affaires gabonaise. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 2009.

Further reading

  • Aaborg, Sam. Le monde des affaires gabonaise. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 2009.
  • Baker, Charles. "Reflexions sur les sources de l'histoire gabonaise." Paideuma 33 (2017): pp. 133–141.
  • Brasseur, Paule. Les sources bibliographiques de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et de l'Afrique équatoriale d 'expression française. Dakar: IFAN, 1970.
  • Carson, Patricia. Materials for West African History in French Archives. London: Athlone Press, 1968.
  • Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et d'Artisanat de la Région du Cap Vert. Bibliographie séléctive d’études et articles relatifs à l'économie et au développement industrial et commercial en Afrique. Dakar: Chambre de Commerce, 1973.
  • Charpy, Jacques. Répertoire des archives du Gouvernement générale de l'A.O.F. Rufisque: Imprimèrie du Gouverneur Général, 1955.
  • Cuoq, Joseph. Recueil des sources arabes concernant l'Afrique occidentale du VIIIè au XVI siècle. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1975.
  • Deschamps, Hubert. Méthodes et doctrines coloniales de la France. Paris: Colin, 1953.
  • Deschamps, Jacque. Le Sénégal et la Gabon. 3rd ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2015.
  • Dia, Mamadou. L’économie africaine: études et problèmes nouveaux. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1957.
  • Diagne, Pathé. Pouvoir politique traditionnel en Afrique occidentale: Essai sur les institutions politiques précoloniale. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1967.
  • Diallo, Thierno, et al. Catalogue des manuscripts de 'I.F.A.N., Fonds Vieillard, Gaden, Brevié, Figaret, Shaykh Moussa Kamara et Cremar en langues arabe, peule et voltaïques. Dakar: IFAN, 1966.
  • Diop, Cheikh Anta. The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality. Trans. by Mercer Cook. New York: L. Hill, 1974.
  • F.A.O. La zone sahélienne: Bibliographie sélectionnée pour l'étude des problèmes. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization, 1973.
  • Fage, John. A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
  • Hargreaves, John D. West Africa: The Former French States. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
  • Lusignan, Guy de. French Speaking Africa since Independence. New York: Praeger, 1969.
  • Manning, Patrick. Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa: 1880–1985. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  • Peterec, Richard J. Dakar and West African Economic Development. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
  • Réflexions sur l'économie de l'Afrique noire, nouvelle édition revue et augmentée. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1961..
  • Thomassery, Marguérite. Catalogue des périodiques d'Afrique noire francophone (1958-1962) conservés à l'I.F.A.N. Dakar: IFAN, 1965.
  • Thompson, Virginia and Richard Adloff. French West Africa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958.
  • Yansané, Aguibou Y. Decolonization in West African States with French Colonial Legacy. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1984.
  • Zidouemba, Dominique H. Les sources de l'histoire des frontières de l'Oeust Africain. Dakar: IFAN, 1979. p. 291
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