Turkey’s Foreign-Aid Priority Is Central Asia
By: Tulin Daloglu for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on May 29.
Despite the prolonged European economic crisis, Turkey is comparatively doing well and free from any significant monetary turmoil. The Turkish International Development and Cooperation Agency (TIKA) continue to break its own records, conducting activities in 100 countries, where the total of its assistance has reached 1.5 billion US dollars in 2012. But the bulk of TIKA’s projects are not in the Middle East, where Turkey’s new foreign policy is receiving the most attention to mixed reactions.
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