Turkey’s role in public service and infrastructural development in Mogadishu
This study investigates the role Turkey plays in the improvement of public services and infrastructure in Somalia particularly access to health care, advancing access to education, and construction of tarmac roads and other key infrastructure in Mogadishu. The study found that Turkish organizations built/rebuilt hospitals such as Digfer (now Erdogan) hospital, which receives about 25,000 patients and perform 550 surgeries each month on average; Yardimeli hospital and 23-kilometer tarmac road in Mogadishu’s center, which breathed new life into Mogadishu’s people and traffic movement and business. The study recommends, among others, that Turkish organizations extend their services beyond Mogadishu, and the Turkish government reconsider its generous scholarship to Somali students and strike balance between social sciences programs and applied programs.
Victims of war | Social and Human Sciences | 