Guinea–Turkey relations

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[[Guinea]] opened its embassy in [[Ankara]] and [[Turkey]] opened its embassy in [[Conakry]] in 2013.<ref name="auto"></ref>

== Diplomatic relations ==

In 1958, [[Guinea]] became the only French sub-Saharan African colony to vote for independence.<ref name="auto3">Adebajo, Adekeye, and Ismail Rashid. West Africa’s Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2004.</ref> [[Guinea]]’s last colonial prime minister [[Ahmed Sékou Touré|Touré]] became the first [[List of presidents of Guinea|President of Guinea]] after campaigning for a vote for independence.<ref name="auto2">Nwaubani, Ebere. The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950–1990. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001</ref> 95% of the population voted for independence, which earned [[Ahmed Sékou Touré|Touré]] the enmity of the French president [[Charles de Gaulle|de Gaulle]]. The French withdrew immediately, taking with them everything they could and destroying<ref name="auto2"/> what they could not, including lightbulbs, plans for sewage pipelines in [[Conakry]]. The French even burned medicines rather than leaving the for [[Guinea]]ns,<ref></ref> leaving [[Guinea]] as one of the world’s poorest, least developed, and most isolated countries.<ref name="auto2"/>

France even forcefully threatened [[NATO]] partners [[Turkey]] and [[United States]]<ref name="auto1">Morrow, John H. First American Ambassador to Guinea. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1968.</ref> — that if [[Turkey]] or the [[United States]] were to provide any assistance to [[Guinea]] or establish any trade relations, [[Charles de Gaulle|de Gaulle]] was prepared to leave [[NATO]].<ref name="auto1"/> Following this ultimate, [[President of the United States|President]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] refused to even acknowledge [[Guinea]]’s requests for foreign aid.<ref name="auto1"/> [[Turkey]] denounced [[Charles de Gaulle|de Gaulle]]’s as extreme but refrained from providing assistance to [[Guinea]].<ref name="auto1"/>

After being snubbed by [[NATO]] countries for financial aid, [[Ahmed Sékou Touré|Touré]] predictably turned to the [[Soviet Union]] for economic assistance. Until the end of the [[Cold War]], [[Turkey]] had limited diplomatic relations with [[Guinea]].<ref name="auto3"/>

== Economic relations ==
* Trade volume between the two countries was 136.7 million USD in 2019.<ref name="auto"/>
* There are direct flights from [[Istanbul]] to [[Conakry]] since January 30, 2017.<ref name="auto"/>

== Educational relations ==

* Turkish Maarif Foundation is currently running 5 schools in [[Guinea]].<ref name="auto"/>
* Turkey has been granting scholarships to [[Guinea]]n students since 1992.<ref name="auto"/>

== See also ==

* [[Foreign relations of Guinea]]
* [[Foreign relations of Turkey]]

== References ==


== Further reading ==
* Adebajo, Adekeye, and Ismail Rashid. West Africa’s Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2004.
* Morrow, John H. First American Ambassador to Guinea. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1968.
* Nwaubani, Ebere. The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950–1990. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001





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