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Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa

Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in Africa. To achieve its goals, the Turkish government is counting on the assistance of its religious networks. [...]

Turkish armoured vehicle manufacturer Otokar was in early September finalising two contracts to provide equipment to the Ivorian military and gendarmerie. [...]

Published on 09/10/2024 at 05:40 GMT

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Ivory Coast
Alexandre Apalo Touré
Forces Armees de Cote d'Ivoire
Lassina Doumbia
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Otokar
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Abidjan's fine financial balancing act for acquiring new arms

Plagued by budget shortages, the Ivorian General Staff is struggling to conclude certain purchases of strategic military equipment, a situation benefiting the Chinese military-industrial complex.

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Ivorian Army chief of staff General Lassina Doumbia in Jacqueville, Ivory Coast, 20 February 2022.

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Turkish armoured vehicles for Moroccan peacekeepers

The contingents of Morocco’s Forces Armées Royales deployed in United Nations peacekeeping missions will soon be equipped with new armoured vehicles made by Turkey.

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Ivory Coast
Otokar's armoured vehicles en route to troubled northern border

The Turkish defence flagship, Otokar, signed two contracts in December to equip the Ivorian army and the gendarmerie with armoured vehicles. Both have put in orders for its Cobra II model to help with their fight against armed groups on Ivory Coast's northern border.

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Ivory Coast
General Doumbia opens Abidjan's doors to Turkey's defence industry after deal with Otokar

The chief of staff of the Ivorian armed forces has just taken delivery of 20 Cobra armoured vehicles from the Turkish manufacturer Otokar, with a view to deployment within MINUSCA in the Central African Republic.

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General Lassina Doumbia, chief of staff of the Ivorian armed forces.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Ivory Coast
Turkey's Otokar sells more military vehicles to Abidjan

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Abidjan's fine financial balancing act for acquiring new arms

Morocco
Turkish armoured vehicles for Moroccan peacekeepers

Ivory Coast
Otokar's armoured vehicles en route to troubled northern border

Ivory Coast
General Doumbia opens Abidjan's doors to Turkey's defence industry after deal with Otokar