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Albayrak leads Erdogan's economic and diplomatic drive in Conakry

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Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa

Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in Africa. To achieve its goals, the Turkish government is counting on the assistance of its religious networks. [...]

All-powerful under Alpha Condé, the Turkish group Albayrak is continuing to hold its own under the junta despite some tensions. Several figures are keeping the dialogue going between Mamadi Doumbouya and the conglomerate, which has very close ties to the Turkish president. [...]

Published on 26.05.2023 at 04:40 GMT Reading time 5 minutes

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Adnan Uçcan
Ahmet Albayrak
Albayrak
Alpha Conde
Alport Conakry
Assimi Goita
Bollore Africa Logistics
Choguel Kokalla Maiga
Economic Community and West African States
Fethullah Gulen
Groupement des forces d'intervention rapide
Groupement des forces speciales
Institut d'Etudes politiques
Mamadi Doumbouya
Mohamed Diane
MSC
Mustafa Levent Adali
Nur Sagman
Port autonome de Conakry
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Volkan Turk Vural

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Inside the business of illegal fishing testing the Beijing-Conakry axis

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Charlotte Daffé, Minister for Fisheries, Aquaculture and the Maritime Economy.

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Françoise Joly bestows her favours on Bayegan at expense of Masono

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Guinea
Doumbouya wants to renegotiate Albayrak's Conakry port contract

Conakry does not recognise the terms of the contract signed between the former administration and the Turkish group in 2018. Through renegotiations, Mamadi Doumbouya hopes to put pressure on Ankara to obtain the return of Alpha Condé from exile.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 22.05.2023

Spotlight | Guinea, Turkey
Coup stops Turkey's Africa push in its tracks

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Turkish Ambassador to Guinea Volkan Türk Vural (left) during a meeting with Guinean Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana on 21 April 2021.

Spotlight | Guinea
Snubbed in the West, Alpha Condé turns to Ankara and Moscow

The scrupulously stage-managed ‘jubilant crowds' who welcomed Alpha Condé at Conakry airport on 31 October served not only as a riposte to the opposition demonstrations that paralysed the country in mid-October but also to underscore a major shift in foreign [.

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Adnan Uçcan
Ahmet Albayrak
Albayrak
Alpha Conde
Alport Conakry
Assimi Goita
Bollore Africa Logistics
Choguel Kokalla Maiga
Economic Community and West African States
Fethullah Gulen
Groupement des forces d'intervention rapide
Groupement des forces speciales
Institut d'Etudes politiques
Mamadi Doumbouya
Mohamed Diane
MSC
Mustafa Levent Adali
Nur Sagman
Port autonome de Conakry
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Inner circles | Guinea
Albayrak leads Erdogan's economic and diplomatic drive in Conakry

In Focus | Guinea
Inside the business of illegal fishing testing the Beijing-Conakry axis

Spotlight | Congo
Françoise Joly bestows her favours on Bayegan at expense of Masono

Mali
Moscow supplies Bamako with Russian wheat at knock-down prices

Guinea
Doumbouya swells diplomatic ranks around the globe

Guinea
Doumbouya wants to renegotiate Albayrak's Conakry port contract

Spotlight | Guinea, Turkey
Coup stops Turkey's Africa push in its tracks

Spotlight | Guinea
Snubbed in the West, Alpha Condé turns to Ankara and Moscow