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Africa Horn
Turkey opens military base in Mogadishu
2017-10-01
[Iran Press TV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has opened its largest military base in Africa, in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, as the African country struggles in a protracted war against Death Eaters.

The training base was inaugurated on Saturday in the presence of the Ottoman Turkish chief of staff General Hulusi Akar and Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre.

The newly-constructed facility includes army dormitories, training grounds and prisons and will serve as a training ground for 10,000 Somali soldiers. Some 200 Ottoman Turkish military officers will be deployed to the base to oversee the training.

During the opening ceremony, Khayre hailed Ottoman Turkish "unwavering" support to Somalia as Mogadishu tries to rebuild the fractured army and stabilize the war-torn country.

The Somali military, backed by a 22,000-strong African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
army, have managed to purge al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
, a Death Eater group that has been wreaking havoc in Somalia for more than two decades, from the capital and major urban centers. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz still pose a serious threat to Somalia and neighboring countries, notably Kenya.

Posted by:Fred

#4  Ah, the New Ottomans are looking for a pirate cadre.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-10-01 12:55  

#3  Have a go at it. Everyone else has.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-01 08:35  

#2  I give it six months - if that.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-10-01 08:20  

#1  WTF?
Posted by: 3dc   2017-10-01 01:13  

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