Turkiye and Niger agreed to boost cooperation on energy, mining, intelligence and defence, after the West African nation asked Western military personnel to leave and terminated the mining contracts of many Western countries, Reuters reports. Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, along with Defence Minister Yasar Guler, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, and head of the MIT intelligence agency, Ibrahim Kalin, visited Niger’s capital, Niamey, on Wednesday. As well as their ministerial counterparts, the Turkish delegation met with Niger’s leader, General Abdourahmane Tiani, who took power in July last year after the military council he leads ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and shifted the country’s allegiances. The junta kicked out French troops and ordered the US to withdraw its military personnel from the country. It also […]
