What is Turkey doing in Africa? BBC Africa 

Why not ask what France is doing in Africa.

As an Ethiopian, would like to thank Turkeye giving helping hand to my countries while the West was destabilizing the country.

What turkey doing in Africa....😂😂😂😂 BBC is funny. Has the BBC ever asked its self what European countries and the USA are doing in Africa? 😂

At least Turkey is not lecturing Africans about what laws to implement on marriage etc,he stays away from cultural issues and only comes to do business and investment. Turkey has built world class Airports in Ghana,Senegal,has built World class Arenas in Rwanda,building Universities in Mozambique and Congo,plus they are helping bring stability in the Congo. They are doing 100 times better than the West,including Britain which sent King Charles on a meaningless Africa tour due to Colonial hangover,or Kamala Harris who went to Ghana to pursue US interests,left nothing of note.

Long live Turkiye! Greetings from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

Unlike the colonials, Turks see Africans as brothers and enforce a win win policy

Love my turkish people, grew up with them in Sweden, hopefully you will find a long lasting partner in my motherland Somalia. You might not know this, but Türkiye alone came for our aid when we needed it the most, so they will forever have a special place in our hearts. 🇸🇴❤🇹🇷

Hi, I'm trinidadian and I love türkiye. I actually went to Istanbul back in 2021 , and it was in my opinion, the best place I think I've been to do far in my life. Turkiye helped build mosques here for the Islamic minority here in the caribbean and I am grateful for what they did.Assalamu alai kum from Trinidad.🇹🇹💙🇹🇷

Turkey is opening the eyes of African leaders by showing them how western countries got rich with African resources while African people are dying for hunger. The best example is Niger, France took their uranium to make electricity while Niger is borrowing electricity from Nigeria. Keep going Turkey, keep going Mr. Erdoğan. 🇸🇴❤🇹🇷

Always support Türkiye from its fatherland Qazaqstan! 🇹🇷❤️🇰🇿 Biz birgemiz! 🐺🤘🏼

The better question is: What is France doing in Africa? Africa's underground riches belong to that continent. It is natural for Turkey to oppose this system of exploitation. The African continent is now waking up and this disturbs the West. I'm afraid the West will continue to be disturbed. Greetings from Turkey🤣😂😏

I lived in Africa for 5 years. Turks respect the thoughts and cultures of Africans. Africans also love Turks. Turks are a Muslim society similar in type to Europeans. However, you will not find racist approaches. The first pilot of African origin in the world was the pilot of the Ottoman Air Force. The future of Turkish-African relations is bright. Africans are very warm-hearted and lovely people, I hope we can build a richer future.

What is BBC doing in Africa ?

Respect to Turkey

Love to Turkey from Africa. The western countries don’t not want to leave their former colonies alone . Free Africa

Turks are compassionate and reliable people.

Turkiye and Africa, we will grow and become strong together 💪🏽

Atleast they r not colonising africa like Western countries .

As a Turkish, I am so happy to see Africa growing and developing. They have very big potential, they are hardworking and honest people. It always saddens me what colonial powers has been doing for years 🌸

Turkey truly wants to help and do business.

Big respect for all African Nations from Turkiye 🖐. i hope African people will realize their power and establish unfied African power economically and militarily.

Turkish Airlines has the most airline destinations of any airline in the world. No fuel crisis there! The Turks have a uniquely peaceful disposition and YES - they don't have a colonial past in Africa. They take over where France failed to show true liberty.

What Turkey does in Africa is the OPPOSITE of the others, HELP, SHARE, DONATE, HUG, MERCY, STABILIZE, We Turks Love Africans, We are brothers.

BSBBC, WHY never ask what France, Uk &the US doing in Africa?

I am happy Turkiye is doing so much in Africa. Respect from Malaysia.

The world need the love and respect culture of the Ottomans. Every language and people is colorful gold❤️

Yorumları okurken ağladım ne mutlu bize ki bütün bir afrikaya iyi bir izlenim bırakıp insanların kalbinde yer etmişiz bunu okuyan başta Afrikalı olmak üzere tüm dünyadan kardeşlerimi kalplerinden öpüyorum Allahın rahmeti ve bereketi üzerinize olsun inşallah

Its officially called "Turkiye" nowadays. Very unprofessional of BBC

I am surprised BBC is not trying to defame Türkiye here. extremely rare BBC w

Turkiye is doing great job In Africa 🇸🇴 ❤🇹🇷

There are very few countries in the world that approach other nations humanely and want to build bridges of friendship, not exploitation. One of them is Türkiye. Hoping that Africa will reach the position it deserves...

Turkiye most welcomed in Africa. I live in Uganda and Turkiye and both countries are my home. Lived in Germany before and I can say, that the end of Europe started because of their bias behavior. Africans do not hate Europeans. They just don't like this hypocrits and are aware of their manner. I can see Turkish constructions and they are nice. Europe, US, China and Russia not slightly honest like Turkiye. Teşekkür Türk dostlarım!

Turkey is disturbing the colonializm of Western Countrys in Africa, who sqezed every resource out of them. Well done🇹🇷❤️

What we are doing in Africa ❓🤔 First we respect them because they're also human like us And most important point is We not drink their bloods 🆎 like europeans

At least Turkey doesn’t push destructive liberal agendas in African countries. They support proud African people to be free from the colonial regimes 🇹🇷🇹🇷

What is USA doing in Africa

We Turks love our African brethren. We love when we see African countries live in peace with each other and grow and develop. Africa is very diverse and a huge continent with more than 50 countries, a lot of them in top 30 largest countries in the world, with the most diverse and colorful cultural heritage and languages. I would love to travel to many African countries and converse with my African brethren from different backgrounds. 21st century will be Africa's century, mark my words!

Masha Allah Salute to Turkye

Very true visited Africa and was impressed by the infrastructure work that Turks were doing there, they also have a lot of businesses on the continent, I heard that they building amazing luxury real estated communities in Somalia as well, actually flew Turkish airlines, and I noticed the big number of African small business peoples traveling between Turkey and Africa, they slowly taking on China and also heard a lot of praise from Africans about them, because before Africans had a very negative view of middle Eastern people because of the Libanese small businesses who were often very shady, and border line involve with criminal enterprise, but the Turkish are completely erasing that negative image, and according to the locals they are doing much better job than Chinese in term of quality, and aren't competing with the locals as Chinese do..

Greetings from a Turk living in the Horn of Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 :))

Bravo. I have always been fond of president Erdogan, but I never knew the number of Turkish embassies in Africa DOUBLED to 44 in the past 15 years. That's awesome. We love Africa. Fascinating cultures that deserve flourishing and beautiful countries that deserve deserving friendly nations as allies.

Most Algerian and Tunisian have Turkey origins than Arabian from Arab peninsula.

I am African and we are tired of west partnership, there are a lot of poverty in the UK and Europa, please leave Africa in peace .

As an Azerbaijani with Turkic mindset i love and respect of this unity. I respect Africa and other parts of world raising and becoming strong against Slavery Kings, Colonialists and etc. I respect people having unity against western so called '' Democracy''. We are Human! We have right to live, We have right to do business with who we want, love and respect. If someone will say Turks are racist, I will say Turks have more positive racism to African people. LOVE TURKIC COUNTRIES

Biz Türklerin kimsenin malında canında gözümüz yok sadece ezilen ve sömürülen masum insanların çıkarlarını savunuruz din dil ırk ayırımı yapmayız insanı insan olduğu için severiz ❤️🇹🇷

I'm a Turk. I am an Ottoman grandson. We see you Africans as our brothers. We love you. Loves from Turkey. Türkiye will always stand by innocent people.

Turkey an old ally of Africa against west

In Turkish history colonism never existed. And racism is invented in Europe. In Turkey racism based on skin color never existed. So Turks respect Africans as an equal partners while europeans see Africans as low class assets to use… Africans are happy to cooperate with Turks because first time in history a country see Africans as equal partners in politics and business and support local interests of African people.

I’ve visited the old ottoman port in massawa many times it’s old and run down and kind of sad that it hasn’t been kept up.. I imagine it was a beautiful city at one time.

Same question had been asked to a city director of a Turkish Airlines who has just appointted a new route to/from Istanbul back in 2000s by his counterparts from Lufthansa and Air-France :D. And today Turkish Airlines as a carrier and İstanbul as a hub are biggest gateway to international connection for Africans.

I love all African people ❤⚘🤝🏻🫂🙏🏻 Love and respect from Türkiye 🇹🇷

Well French have been killing oppressing and exploiting Africans for years and nobody talked about it. Now Turkey goes to these countries with fair economic deals and they want to go with Turkey instead of French. Yet I have never seen a video about brutalities of French in africa

Big Respect to Turkey and Erdogan

We will develop together with the win-win principle. Turks do not have a colonial, colonial, fascist, imperialist or self-interested past. A more just world is possible. Greetings from Türkiye to the people of Africa.

The Turks are more than 1000 years in africa. Specially in East and North Africa. We love our brothers and sisters in Africa! ❤

The name of my country is not Turkey in English but Türkiye. This was declared in English at the UN, we think that English speakers will understand English. But if they still don't understand, it could be a mental problem like a learning disability.

Heres something you may find interesting. :) The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :) Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's, spelled to phonetically resemble ''Turkiye'' in different languages, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''.... ...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia). Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye, as Turkish is much much older. Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye. Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas, the bird was sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so upuntil that they there was no bird named 'turkey'.... ...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''..... ....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc. In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years. Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected. So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : ) So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : ) Best wishes. ;)

❤❤❤❤ 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 from 🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴

Haha, I like this wording @1:50 , The threat to Africa's resource is China and Russia and definitely not France she said, lol.

It is Türkiye not Turkey! "In June 2022, the United Nations agreed to change the spelling of the country known in the English-speaking world as Turkey to Türkiye"

Could you tell us what the UK is doing in Africa too? You might come up with its colonial history. Then how about the USA, China and goes on. Ah, it’s the BBC, my bad!

Selam to my african brothers i hope you guys live the way you deserve. Sending love and good wishes

Actually it is called "Türkiye" meanwhile, not "Turkey" anymore.

Thank you so much for this brief but insightful, comprehensive, and cutting-edge snapshot of Türkiye-African relations. It remains to be seen how the increasingly overlooked but significant relationship between Ankara and African countries will pan out in the medium and long-term future

A strong leader indeed. Great to see Erdogan use his power and influence to help African nations rebuild and join the industrialized world.

Long live Erdogan, ❤❤

Turkiye does not steal resources - they do not have military bases. The one in Somalia is there to train Somali troops to protect their nation from rebels. They invest in ports - airports and try to strengthen their economies. Not many nations if any do this. Turkiye i have no doubt would love to help every African nation but Africa need to support Turkiye. Increase your imports from them. If they get stronger I'm sure Africa will get stronger.

Great nations Turkey 🇹🇷

AFRICANS ARE OUR BROTHERS. RESPECT FROM TR

Turkey is doing great overall because of their strong and visionary leader and Iam worried who is coming after him because Erdogan can’t stay thé office forever. Remember Africa, every country can be a great country if they get a good leader.

The name is not Turkey it is Turkiye

Actually seeing these kind of relationships isn’t weird cos Africa ,esp North Africa, was part of the Turk- Muslim world and we always ask what are western countries doing in Africa instead Turkiye. As a Turk always I wanna see awareness of African people

Silly question from a silly broadcasting machine!

I hope that Africa will one day be free from the colonialist racist European countries that always feel better than other peoples. Africa is a rich continent but unfortunately the Europeans have plundered Africa and are still doing so. Turkey does not do that, Turks treat Africans as human beings. And really try to help and win the hearts of African brothers. I love Africa, their people their nature EVERYTHING, Mama Africa❤❤❤❤

Why dont you ask what is USA, UK, France, Germany, Belgium etc doing in Africa?

As a Turkish, I love Africa and my African friends, my African colleagues. I admire your culture and diversity in the continent. We love you and support you! I hope Africa will prosper forever. ❤❤❤ Love you all!

Good job Türkiye. Erdogan is a special leader.

It’s Turkiye not Turkey please.

Go forward my Anatolian turkic brothers, love from 🇰🇬

TURKIYE🤎🤎🤎🤍🤍🖤🖤💜💜💜💙💙💚💚💛🧡🧡🧡🧡❤❤❤❤❤

Garip gelebilir ama sizi seviyoruz ülkenizde hür ve sömürülmeden yaşamanızı temmeni ediyoruz

When shall we also give our expertise to the west and other regions of the world. Or Did we just come to this world to observe? I smell foul play

This is relationship is beautiful, the Muslim world is healing.

Imperialists go home , brother Turkey welcome back.

Go Turkey Africa Need's you and You Need Africa!!!

May Allah bless Turkiye and never become corrupt or evil unlike the West.

African ppl are authentic! ❤ 🇹🇷

Big respect Mr Erdogan❤

As a Turkish I love African people ❤

When the Ottoman Empire began to lose its power, in 1830, France invaded Algeria. This invasion marked the beginning of France's occupations in North Africa. Today, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria still consider themselves somewhat French. They consume French cuisine, speak French as a necessity, and operate their mines for the benefit of France. Due to some people waking up from their deep slumbers, the world's largest Ponzi scheme of fiat currencies seems to be coming to an end. America and Europe are on the brink of a financial crisis, hence they anticipate a new war in the world. This is to erase debts due to interest and to lull societies back to sleep. During the First World War, one million African soldiers fought in the French army, similar to the way the British used Indian slaves. Today, it is not surprising to see them strategically bringing a Zionist Indian to lead for the purpose of persuading India against China. I hope the whole world truly opens its eyes...

Turkey is the greatest country in the world 🌎 Alhamdulila Allahu Akbar Allah is the greatest..

Why are you still calling the country Turkey?? Surely, as the BBC you must know that's like calling Eswatini as Swaziland....

Greetings from USA to all Turkey fan!

what is france doing in africa

As a Turkish we love to support the continent. We are not like Belgium or any other Western countries.

idk much but i believe turkey has more reasons to be in africa than eu or new world countries

Respect the name Mister, it is called Turkiye!

Love Africa from 🇹🇷

Damn, I wish this video was here a year earlier. I really could have used such a concise summary of Turkish diplomatic efforts in Africa back then.

Love and greetings to all our African brothers and sisters from Istanbul Türkiye.