Somali's Foreign Ministry Has Said It Does Not Recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Respects the Territorial Integrity

IYI (Good) Party Balikesir deputy Turhan Comez reacted strongly to the statement, reminding that Turkey has provided over $1 billion in donations to Somalia. "We built a large research hospital, named Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital. We pulled our drilling ships from the Blue Homeland and sent them to Somalia.

Around 600 Turkish soldiers are there protecting the Somali people, he said. Comez also noted that Turkey granted a 5,000-square-meter plot of land in Incek for a new embassy building, with construction costs covered by Ankara. "Soon we will also establish a 'space base'!

Yet the Somali Foreign Ministry announced 'we do not recognize the TRNC. It turns out that cutting from the Turkish nation's livelihood and scattering money left and right does not make one a 'great state-world leader, he added.