Afrika’nın gelişmekte olan ticaret dinamikleri, kendilerini Çin’in kıta üzerindeki stratejik

Africa’s booming growth dynamics have drawn a renewed interest of its traditional Western tradepartners, who felt their preferential relations threatened by the growing Chinese competitionfor access to the abundant strategic resources. The Chinese approach of combining trade inminerals with investments in large infrastructure projects to access the needed resources hastransformed the traditional structure of the geopolitical rivalry on the continent. With theobjectives of the geostrategic game shifting from territorial domination to political hegemony,oil and profits, the payoffs to different protagonists have become more complementary thanmutually exclusive. As a result, new foreign actors seeking to use their own specific approachesto take advantage of the growing African trade and investment opportunities have emerged.In this article, we analyse the main patterns of global actors’ engagement with Africa, as well asshed some light on the way how Turkey has gotten involved in the continent. We hope to makesense of Turkey’s growing diplomatic and trade relationships with Africa in the context of theincreasing competition for influence between Africa’s traditional Western partners and theemerging Asian global players. One of our goals is to ascertain whether Turkey’s engagementwith Africa is something unique or bears resembles to other actors’ engagement.