Turkey To Donate Land For A New Somali Embassy In Ankara

[IKHALIIL]

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-build-somalia-embassy-ankara

Turkey is set to construct and donate an embassy building and a plot of land to Somalia at a cost estimated to reach over $6m, according to a deal submitted to the Turkish parliament on Monday.

As per the agreement signed between Turkey and Somalia in 2022, Ankara will make this contribution in exchange for a plot of land that the Somali government donated to Turkey in 2015.

The diplomatic mission Turkey built on that plot in Mogadishu was its largest worldwide, covering an area of more than 61,000 sqm at a cost of $65m.

In return, Somalia is getting 4,918 sqm of land in the Incek diplomatic site in Ankara.

Turkey plans to erect a 3,000 sqm embassy building on this site, and the agreement allows Somalia the right to sell the land and buildings in the future if it wishes.
However, the Turkish parliament must ratify the deal before it can proceed.

'There is no saving from the love of Somalia'
- opposition newspaper Sozcu headline

The agreement has already sparked criticism in the Turkish media. Sozcu, the largest opposition daily newspaper, ran a front-page report on Tuesday titled: "There is no saving from the love of Somalia".

The report highlighted the irony of the government constructing an embassy for Somalia while cutting funding for numerous domestic projects and services under austerity measures.

"They say there is austerity in the public sector, but they spend lavishly," the newspaper said. "The government, which could not find money to raise the salaries of millions of retirees and minimum-wage earners, donated [valuable land] in Ankara to Somalia."

Sozcu claimed the land is worth 200m Turkish lira ($6.5m). However, Turkish sources familiar with the project told Middle East Eye that the cost of both the building and the land would not exceed $6m, and it might even be lower.

One source emphasised that the land donated to Turkey in Somalia is 12 times more extensive and in a prime location in Mogadishu.

 

[Jungle]

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-build-somalia-embassy-ankara

Good news. We welcome the turks always.

Dad aan unuga aheen maba soo dhaweyn karin Turkiye. Sheikh Sharif laga soo bilaawo ilaa HSM ku dar reerka goofkooda ku sadaqeestay.. madaxweyne aan abgaal aheen maa dhul xamar iyo nawaaxigeeda bixin karo?

Long may our relationship continue with Turkiye

 

[Abdisamad]

Good news. We welcome the turks always.

Dad aan unuga aheen maba soo dhaweyn karin Turkiye. Sheikh Sharif laga soo bilaawo ilaa HSM ku dar reerka goofkooda ku sadaqeestay.. madaxweyne aan abgaal aheen maa dhul xamar iyo nawaaxigeeda bixin karo?

Long may our relationship continue with Turkiye

What the hell is goof? Sounds like a cave or a pothole where one would disappear if you fall into

 

[IKHALIIL]

What the hell is goof? Sounds a cave or some shit where one would disappear if you fall into

Goof is roughly the somali equivalent of a range land. Mool is somewhere you could fall into.

 

[Periplus]

Honestly, we gave them way too good of a site.

 

[Abdisamad]

Goof is roughly the somali equivalent of a range land. Mool is somewhere you could fall into.

Must be a southern Somali word, never heard this word being used by my family or family members.

 

[Killamenace78]

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-build-somalia-embassy-ankara

After taking your entire coastline they reward you with some land congrats

 

[Magan Joseph]

What the hell is goof? Sounds like a cave or a pothole where one would disappear if you fall into

 

[IKHALIIL]

After taking your entire coastline they reward you with some land congrats

Can't you read?

Ankara will make this contribution in exchange for a plot of land that the Somali government donated to Turkey in 2015.

 

[Dalac Bilaash]

Can't you read?

These Niggas literally don't read at all they just complain