Turkey, Niger agree to enhance energy, mining, defence cooperation
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Turkish delegation visits Niger to enhance cooperation in defence, energy, and intelligence, amid shifting alliances and Western exits.
Turkey and Niger agreed to boost cooperation on energy, mining, intelligence and defence, after the West African nation asked Western military personnel to leave and terminated the mining contracts of many Western countries.
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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, along with Defence Minister Yasar Guler, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar and head of the MIT intelligence agency Ibrahim Kalin visited Niger’s capital Niamey on July 18.
As well as their Ministerial counterparts, the Turkish delegation met with Niger’s leader General Abdourahmane Tchiani, who took power in July last year after the military council he leads ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and shifted the country’s allegiances.
The junta kicked out French troops and ordered the U.S. to withdraw its military personnel from the country. It also severed security pacts with the European Union.
The Turkish Ministers’ visit to Niamey comes two months after Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine met with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.
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