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Under the pretext of humanitarian aid and investment, the Turkish regime infiltrated some African countries to steal their wealth.

The Turkish regime headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan infiltrated some African countries to steal their wealth and revive malicious political ambitions on the black continent under the cover of grants, humanitarian aid and joint investment.

Turkey, which embraces terrorism and supports extremism in the region, aims at restoring its ailing economy by opening up to these countries, starting with Libya and then Somalia.

At the same time, observers fear that Turkish expansion in Africa could lead to the spread of terrorism in Africa.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu revealed those ambitions aimed at dismembering Africa and using it as a model of terrorism. He confirmed a few days ago that his country was determined to expand its relations with African countries.

Turkey has started to spread its poisons and penetrate several countries of the black continent to seize its natural resources, oil, gas, gold, diamonds and other minerals.

In North Africa and the Horn of Africa, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a plan to seize the wealth of those countries by signing unfair agreements in favor of his collapsing economy, at the expense of several African economies such as Libya, Somalia, and Sudan.

Turkey uses the Turkish company Export for International Defense Consultancy SADAT, which was founded by retired military brigadier Adnan Tanri Verdi in 2012, as an economic gateway to achieve these plans.

While SADAT is draining in countries like Libya, for example, some countries have stood up to Erdogan’s plans, such as Tunisia, while the neo-colonialism machine continues to dig in countries like Somalia and Sudan.

This coincided with the collapse of Turkey’s economy and the depreciation of the local currency, the unprecedented rise in the trade deficit, a budget deficit at historic levels, and a sharp fall in the foreign-exchange reserve.

Total Turkish-African trade exchange amounts to $21 billion, at a time when the hidden bill for Turkish looting amounts to $200 billion annually.

Libya

Turkey’s presence was based on a void agreement with the unconstitutional government of Fayez Al-Seraj last November on maritime delimitation in the eastern Mediterranean and security cooperation.

Ankara quickly unveiled plans to loot Libya’s wealth, with Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmaz announcing last January that his country had designated 7 areas for oil exploration licenses in Libya. The exploration process will be carried out based on data analysis by the Turkish Petroleum Corporation.

Erdogan’s approach agrees with Turkey’s Demir Oran Haber Agency that Turkey’s military interest in Libya is due to Ankara’s need for fuel.

Data from the Turkish Statistics Agency in 2019 indicate that Turkey’s energy deficit is more than $41 billion, a figure that Ankara believes could be provided if the current and projected oil industry is indirectly controlled.

Somalia

Amidst the conflicts that Somalia has suffered as a result of terrorist organizations and civil war, Erdogan hopes to take advantage of the internal situation of the African state overlooking the Red Sea to steal its large oil and gas reserves, according to studies conducted by Sesmek Geo and other companies.

Erdogan expressed his intentions over Somalia’s oil when he returned on board his plane to Turkey in January 2020 after attending the Berlin summit on the Libyan crisis. He said the Somali government had submitted a request to his country to explore for gas and oil off its coast.

Turkish media quoted Erdogan as saying that oil exploration in Somalia’s territorial waters would yield a great return to the economy of his country .

The ruling Justice and Development Party quickly won parliamentary approval for an energy cooperation agreement between Turkey and Somalia.

Indeed, in February, the Turkish government moved to exploit Somalia’s oil and gas reserves and mining prospects by establishing a mechanism that allows both private and Turkish-owned companies to explore the country’s energy opportunities, which are strategically located in the Horn of Africa.

Tunisia

In Tunisia, Erdogan tried to infiltrate the African country through a trade agreement aimed at boosting Turkey’s commercial influence within the domestic market, weakening Tunisian production and replacing Turkish industries. The parliament was in the forefront of its rejection.

Last April, representatives in the Tunisian parliament demanded to refuse to ratify two trade agreements that were presented to the council, the first with Qatar and the second with Turkey, describing them as “violating national sovereignty”.

Mabrouk Kurshid, a member of parliament from the “Long live Tunisia” party, warned of the danger of ratifying the trade agreement with Turkey, calling on the MPs to reject it.

“The agreement allows the Turks, institutions and individuals, to own real estate in Tunisia, which is protected from foreign ownership, and also allows the Turks to own agricultural land,” Kurshid said, noting that “the protection of agricultural land is related to national sovereignty.”

The Tunisian MP explained that the commercial agreement signed between Tunisia and Turkey in 2016 “permits investment to Turks without restrictions, and gives the Turkish investor the same privileges as the Tunisian investor, such as the right to own property and borrow from local banks.”

Mauritania

In Mauritania, Ankara’s policy doesn’t look different there, even if the tools of implementation vary. Ankara moves through commercial companies and then uses the cover of humanitarian aid.

Turkey signed dozens of agreements with Mauritania, through which it achieved a six-fold increase in the volume of trade over the course of 10 years.

Turkey sees in Mauritania a strong supporter of Africa’s huge market, but the opening of Nouakchott to the world has wasted the Turkish dream.

The Mauritanian government decided to allow Turkish companies to enter public tenders without special privileges.

In parallel with this, Turkey has taken advantage of the environmental challenge facing Mauritania, and has offered to help since it has experience in this field, which will be part of the project to combat desertification in Mauritania.

Ankara funded a project to rehabilitate about 5,000 hectares in Mauritania, Sudan and Eritrea, with a financial cover of up to $3 million, from 2018 to 2021, as a pretext for the Turkish presence in this country, which is rich in natural resources.

Algeria

Algeria is Ankara’s most important trade partner in Africa. It is the fourth largest exporter of gas to Turkey after Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.

According to official estimates, energy exports represent about 97% of the total Algerian exports to Turkey. Hence, the reasons for Ankara and Algeria’s interest in concluding 7 agreements and memoranda of understanding in various fields, including diplomacy, oil, gas, agriculture, tourism and higher education.

People close to the Turkish-Algerian file say that Erdogan is strongly trying to pass his poisons and spread his tentacles in this gas-rich country, this vital resource which the Turkish President failed to find a replacement in the failed invasions of the Eastern Mediterranean with Egypt, Cyprus and Greece.

In 2018, Erdogan demanded during meetings of the Businessmen’s Council of the two countries that the volume of trade with Algeria be increased from $3.5 billion to $5 billion in the first phase, and then to $10 billion.

The Turkish President is trying to control the Algerian economy through 160 companies already operating in Algeria in the sectors of construction, industry, agriculture and textile