... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
krazed killer group.
The troops were transported to the Ottoman Turkish military base known as Turk-Som, located in the Jazeera area of the capital. The base is
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
member, but not the most reliable...
’s largest in Africa and serves as the primary training ground for Somalia’s elite Gorgor forces.
More than 300 Ottoman Turkish military personnel are currently stationed at the Camp TurkSOM, which was opened in 2017. The camp can accommodate approximately 1500 trainees at a time. As of 2023, nearly 5,000 Somali trainees have graduated from the military camp.
The deployment is part of a broader plan approved by the Ottoman Turkish Parliament in July 2024, allowing President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...to send up to 2,500 troops to Somalia. It remains unclear whether the forces will engage directly in combat operations or conduct
...
KABOOM!...
s, similar to U.S. military support in the region.
The move comes amid renewed offensives by al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked bully boy group, which has recently retaken several areas previously liberated by Somali forces, including the strategic town of Adan Yabal.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who visited Turkey earlier this month, discussed the escalating conflict and international cooperation with Erdogan, at a time when hopes are dimming for the planned 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...
-led AUSSOM mission. Egypt had been expected to contribute troops to the effort.
Turkey has been a close ally of Somalia since 2011, investing in infrastructure and training Somali security forces. Ottoman Turkish-trained Gorgor and Haramacad units now play a key role in the country’s ongoing counterterrorism operations.
[X] Swanning around as if they were a real neo-Ottoman sultanate with the kind of funding the sultanate used to have before it went broke and was dissolved. Hattip 3dc:
Turkish Lira has been completely pegged against US Dollar since anti-government protests broke out a month ago. But the current $/TRY exchange rate is meaningless. The central bank is burning through large amounts of its official FX reserves. There is big capital flight going on. pic.twitter.com/rBTq3pz1VE
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