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INSIGHT-Turkey tries out soft power in Somalia | Reuters

INSIGHT-Turkey tries out soft power in Somalia

By Richard Lough
MOGADISHU, June 3 (Reuters) - In a sprawl of plastic refugee shelters and mortar-blasted buildings in Mogadishu, a mud-caked Turkish engineering team monitors the drilling of a new borehole while their armed guards chat lazily under a tree, guns across laps.

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