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Faced with the collapse of the lira and inflation which continues to rise, Recep Tayyip Erdogan flies to Africa – stops in Niger, Angola and Togo – to strengthen political and commercial relations on the continent, a strategy in which the Turkish president has invested since 2005, with important results. In 16 years, 15 state trips, about 30 countries visited, the volume of Turkish-African trade has gone from $ 5.4 billion in 2003 to $ 25.3 billion in 2020.
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