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[TheRealTalker]

A Turkish military attache speaking on condition of anonymity said the UN-backed base will be operational by the start of 2017.

http://aa.com.tr/en/africa/turkey-to-open-military-training-base-in-somalia/656335

Turkey has completed equipping its first military base in Africa in the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu. The base will host Turkish military officers to train Somali soldiers and troops in their fight against the Al-Shabaab terrorist organization. It will become operational shortly.

http://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-te...ets-up-first-african-military-base-in-somalia

The base, which has been approved by the United Nations, is the country's second overseas military installation. Their first base was established in Qatar in April as part of a security agreement to help counter threats to both countries.

Around 200 Turkish military officers will be deployed to the base in Somalia in the first stage to train 10,500 Somalian soldiers.

Turkey has been providing military assistance to Somalia for over five years now, within the scope of military and financial cooperation deals between the two governments.

Turkey also provided the African nation with over 400 million dollars in the biggest aid campaign for the country while it was struggling to fight starvation.

it seems that more and more countries want to have much bigger role of influence in certain regions

 

[EMT0]

Military bases in Qatar and Somalia, huh? It's as though they're placing bases at the very outskirts of the Ottoman Empire's farthest points of expansion.

 

[TheRealTalker]

Military bases in Qatar and Somalia, huh? It's as though they're placing bases at the very outskirts of the Ottoman Empire's farthest points of expansion.

they are at specific shipment bottle necks

everyone is in Qatar but no one since the Cold War wanted the strategic points of Somalia