Economy has weakened Erdogan’s hand in Africa
IT IS not like Recep Tayyip Erdogan to eschew the spotlight, much less an opportunity to strut on the world stage. And yet, Turkey's president passed up on pageantry when a pair of West African heads of state paid him court in Istanbul on January 30. Erdogan’s meeting with Senegal’s Macky Sall and Guinea Bissau’s Umaro Sissco Embalo took place behind closed
