The Turkey’s President Recep Tayyib Erdogan who is on a day visit in The Gambia has today pledged his country’s continued support to the country.
The purpose of his visit is to facilitate a review of the bilateral relations between the two countries and to map-out ways of strengthening collaboration relative to development cooperation at the bilateral and multilateral level.
Speaking at a news shortly after a close-door meeting with Barrow, Mr Erdogan assured that “we are more than ready to cement cooperation [with The Gambia].”
He praised Gambia’s action in taking Myanmar government to the International Court of Justice ensuring that Myanmar minority Muslims earn justice.
Mr Erdogan who becomes first Turkey’s president to visit The Gambia said his country is strengthening its economic relationship with Africa in areas like energy, agriculture, health, tourism and construction sector. He assumed office in 2014.
Also speaking President Adama Barrow expressed delight about the long-time saying “your government demonstrated strong support to our transitional program with military support to the sum of 17 million US dollar for the period of five years.”
My government is ready to enhance and explore economy agreement with Turkey through foreign direct investment, he said.
