Turkey aims to win alongside Africa and march together towards the future, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Friday in his commencement speech at the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit’s foreign ministers meeting in Istanbul.
Stating that Turkey was pleased with the intense participation in the summit despite the ongoing pandemic, he said: “While six heads of state and government attended our first summit in 2008 and seven heads of state attended our second summit in 2014, we host 16 heads of state and government at this summit. We are hosting 102 African ministers, 26 of whom are foreign ministers, in Istanbul on the occasion of the summit. High participation is actually an indicator of the level our ties with Africa have reached.”
Highlighting that the theme of this year’s summit is “Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity,” Çavuşoğlu said: “We want to walk the path of development and prosperity with our African friends and carry our cooperation to the future. Our aim is to win together with Africa, to walk into the future together. Our view of relations with Africa is strategic and long-term. Our president is one of the leaders who visited Africa the most, with 50 visits to 30 African countries.”
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