MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Ibrahim Mete Yagli to serve as Ankara’s ambassador to Somalia.
According to a decree was published in the Official Gazette, Yagli will Mehmet Yilmaz who has been as Turkish ambassador to Somalia since 2018.
Yagli had served as Turkey’s ambassador to Botswana from 2014 to 2019. He also worked as the Consul General in Vienna.
He held First Undersecretary at the Polish Embassy in 2005 and the General Directorate of Multilateral Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008.
He joined Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1986, will take over for Yilmaz.
Somalia and Turkey have been enjoying close bilateral relations for over a decade now.
Turkey has been a reliable partner in rebuilding Somalia across all sectors and has been a crucial strategic partner in training and equipping Somali troops, particularly the Gorgor Commando Brigade of the national army and the Haramcad (Cheetah) Special Police Unit.
Turkey’s biggest overseas military training base, which was inaugurated in 2017, is in Somalia and is also among the largest foreign-run military centers in the country.
Somalia plunged into chaos after the 1991 overthrow of President Siad Barre’s military regime, leading to years of clan warfare followed by the rise of the al-Shabab terrorist group, which once controlled large parts of the country and the capital.
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