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Excerpt from www.garoweonline.com
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Turkey is set to build a $6 million embassy in Ankara, which will house the Somalia embassy, in a deal that has been submitted in the Turkish Parliament, as a show of smooth ties with the Horn of Africa nation, which is struggling with instability.
The agreement, signed in 2022 between Somalia and Turkey, Ankara made the sacrifice about Mogadishu’s decision to decision to donate a plot to the government of Turkey in 2015, following blossoming bilateral ties between the two countries.
The diplomatic mission Turkey built on that plot in Mogadishu was its largest worldwide, covering an area of more than 61,000 sqm for $65m. In return, Somalia is getting 4,918 sqm of land in the Incek diplomatic site in Ankara.
After building, Somalia will be at liberty to sell both the land and the house in the future if it so wishes, the Middle East Eye reports. Sozcu, the largest opposition daily newspaper, ran a front-page report on Tuesday titled: “There is no saving from the love of Somalia”.
