Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made the remarks after he met with
Yagli was accompanied by TurkSom Chief Commander Brig. Gen. Sebahattin Kalkan.
Camp TurkSom, located in the capital, Mogadishu, is Turkiye’s largest overseas military base and training facility. It has the capacity to accommodate around 1,500 trainees at a time and has already trained more than 5,000 Somali security forces.
"During the meeting, the president commended the distinguished close relations between the two brotherly countries," Somalia’s Presidency said in a statement on X.
The meeting came as Mogadishu is campaigning to lift an arms embargo on Somalia.
The embargo was imposed by the UN Security Council in early 1992 following the collapse of Somalia’s military regime.
Somalia is enjoying a close economic, diplomatic, and military friendship with Turkiye that has been growing since
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...visited Somalia in 2011.
Since then, Turkiye has built an 80,000-square-meter (861,112-square-foot) embassy in Mogadishu, which is its biggest embassy in Africa.
Last month, the
The plant will have a production capacity of 5.6 MW/hour, providing energy to around 40,000 homes by the end of 2024, according to the embassy.
Somalia also anticipates the opening of a Ziraat Bank branch in Mogadishu, which will be the first