Facing Global Challenges: Turkish and South African Perspectives

The meeting uncovered the challenges and opportunities that South Africa and Turkey face in the wake of changing regional and global order. The participants defined the current challenges, sketched out avenues for cooperation and established a framework for future relations.

In the 21st century, the shift in global and regional balance of power has ushered in new challenges and opportunities for rising powers. In the face of such regional and global challenges and opportunities, it is imminent that emerging powers like Turkey and South Africa have a pioneering role to play in regional and global politics. It is on the basis of these considerations that a group of Turkish and South African deputy political leaders, bureaucrats, academicians and civil society experts met on August 1st 2019 to define the current challenges and opportunities for cooperation. Turkey has a strong historical relationship with the Republic of South Africa that dates back to the 19th century and political and diplomatic relations that dates back in 1994 when the first Turkish Embassy was opened in Pretoria. Nonetheless the representatives from South Africa underpinned that in the face of regional and global challenges there exists the willingness and potentials for development on both sides. This report relies on the views proffered Turkish and South African politicians, bureaucrats, academicians, and researchers during round table meeting organized by African Foundation on August 1st 2019. The meeting uncovered the challenges and opportunities that South Africa and Turkey face in the wake of changing regional and global order. The participants defined the current challenges, sketched out avenues for cooperation and established a framework for future relations.

Araştırmalarımız ve programlarımızı beğendiyseniz, çalışmalarımızı desteklemek için Afrika Vakfı’na bağışta bulunabilirsiniz.

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