Gabon–Turkey relations are the foreign relations between

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

and

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. Turkey has an embassy in

Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inh ...

since 2012. Gabon opened an embassy in

Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

in 2015.

Diplomatic relations

Historically, Turkey has had strong relations with

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

.Carson, Patricia. Materials for West African History in French Archives. London: Athlone Press, 1968. Turkey was very supportive of the

ese economic expansion after Bongo's accession to the presidency and cooperated with technical expertise during the construction of the Transgabonais Railway to the upper

Ogooué River The Ogooué (or Ogowe), also known as the Nazareth river, some long, is the principal river of Gabon in west central Africa and the fifth largest river in Africa by volume of discharge, trailing only the Congo, Kasai, Niger and Zambezi. Its w ...

valley.Baker, Charles. "Reflexions sur les sources de l'histoire gabonaise." Paideuma 33 (2017): pp. 133-141. Relations became tense when after the French investigative reporter

Pierre Péan Pierre Péan (5 March 1938 – 25 July 2019) was a French investigative journalist and author of many books concerned with political scandals. Books, investigations and controversies In 1983 Pierre Péan was the first to break the story of the Gre ...

unmaskedAaborg, Sam. Le monde des affaires gabonaise. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 2009. that the Bongo government used Turkish aid to build a lavish new presidential palace for $900 million (worth US$4.12 billion in 2020) that enriched the French expatriates in Gabon.

Presidential visits

Trade relations

* Trade volume between the two countries was US$38.9 million in 2018.

Educational relations

Turkish Maarif Foundation The Turkish Maarif Foundation (TMF; Türkiye Maarif Vakfı) was established under Law No. 6721 to provide formal and non-formal education and to award scholarships in all educational processes from preschool to university education, to open facili ...

runs schools in Gabon and Turkey has been providing scholarships to students from Gabon since 1992.

References

Gabon–Turkey relations

Bilateral relations of Turkey {{Bilateralrelations-stub

Diplomatic relations

Presidential visits

Trade relations

Educational relations

See also

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