TURKEY’S EMERGING ECONOMIC TIES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA: THE RISE OF VIRTUAL STATE

Horn of Africa is becoming home for Turkish institutional level relation, byserving as get-way for Turkish access to AU, ADB and IGAD. The total tradetransaction between Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Turkey reachedmore than 500 million USD than less than 100 million it has been in 2004. FDIonly in Ethiopia accounted 3.2 billion USD, which is by far the largest in Africa.The first overseas public bank that Turkey has opened is in the horn of Africa.TIKA and Anadolu News Agency has well establishment in the region already.In this paper, Turkey’s emerging economic interest in the horn of Africa isdiscussed based on the Richards Rosecrans’s (1996) conceptual framework ofvirtual state, and Robert Putnam’s (1988) second track diplomacy.

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virtual states, second track diplomacy, Turkish foreign policy, Turkey and horn of Africa economic ties

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