KÜRESEL GÜNEY VE YÜKSELEN GÜÇLER

Sudan is not located in sub-Saharan Africa.

Mali is located in sub-Saharan Africa.

Turkey’s declaration of the year 2005 as the “Year of Africa” was an important benchmark in TurkishAfrican relations as it signified Turkey’s re-engagement policy towards the African continent.

In the late 15th century, the Western world entered Africa’s territory, beginning with the Portuguese.

In the late 19th century, delegations from 14 countries gathered in Berlin in 1855 to reach a consensus on how to share the resources of Africa.

The various features of Pan-Africanism in religious, cultural and political realms led to the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963.

Nelson Mandela led South Africa to democratic governance and became the first President in 1994.

With respect to the Continent’s political history, the Rwandan Genocide that occurred in 1994 represents an important benchmark for the Continent’s political history. In 1994, in only 100 days, ethnic Hutu radicals systematically killed almost one million Tutsis and 100,000 Hutus.

In Nigeria, Boko Haram benefits from the unstable atmosphere and commits terrorist activities.

From a wider perspective, beyond the subSaharan region, relations between Turkey and African date back to the Ottoman period when Yavuz Sultan Selim conquered Egypt in 1517.