{"id":823446,"date":"2023-11-30T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T10:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=823446"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:40","slug":"what-is-turkey-doing-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/11\/30\/what-is-turkey-doing-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Turkey doing in Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is Turkey doing in Africa? BBC Africa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CdIVQ58KtKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the West reduces its presence and influence in Africa, Turkey is using trade, aid and education to make inroads into the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it has even rebranded itself as an &#8220;Afro-Eurasian country&#8221;, as the BBC&#8217;s Esther Kahumbi reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the West reduces its presence and influence in Africa, Turkey is using trade, aid and education to make inroads into the continent. And it has even rebranded itself as an &#8220;Afro-Eurasian country&#8221;, as the BBC&#8217;s Esther Kahumbi reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":823448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1169],"class_list":["post-823446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","tag-religious-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}