Ankara (Anadolu Agency) — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon for a working lunch at the Prime Ministry’s Official Residence.
The closed-door meeting was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ, Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin, Minister of Interior Muammer Güler, and Minister of Health Mehmet Müezzinoğlu. The working lunch lasted approximately two hours.
Prior to the meeting, a memorandum of understanding in the field of information technologies was signed between Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Naci Koru and Somalia’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohamed Nur Ga’al.
The agreement, initiated at the request of Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, includes a project developed by Türkiye’s Foreign Ministry to establish Somalia’s IT infrastructure. The project’s first phase involves creating a communication infrastructure between Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its overseas missions via a data center to be established by Türkiye at the Somali Embassy in Ankara.
Under the agreement, Türkiye will provide all necessary hardware, software, and training to support the project.