Africa-Turkey Summit: "There is a place to be taken in an intermediate type market"

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is counting on the Africa-Turkey summit to restore his image.

Adem ALTAN AFP / File

By: Florent Guignard Follow

Forty senior African officials are currently in Istanbul for the 3 rd summit of the Turkey-Africa partnership which lasts two days.

They must discuss the strengthening of cooperation on the economic, security and cultural fronts set up in recent years by Ankara.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is counting on this summit to restore his image, especially with its exporters, eager for new markets in these times of monetary crisis.

For Marc Pierini, guest researcher at the Carnegie Europe think tank in Brussels, the Turkish president " 

", he was the guest of RFI at the microphone of Florent Guignard.

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