Relationship dossier
Turkey
Djibouti
Relationship assessment
Turkey and Djibouti maintain a cooperative relationship with agreements spanning several development sectors.
Turkey toward Djibouti
+35The Turkish government has pursued cooperation with Djibouti through bilateral agreements, including accords on education, health, agriculture and water signed during Erdoğan’s 2015 visit.
Djibouti toward Turkey
+35The Djiboutian government signed bilateral cooperation agreements with Turkey during Erdoğan’s 2015 visit, including accords on education, health, agriculture and water.
Overall relationship
+35The relationship has a practical cooperative basis in bilateral agreements across several development sectors. The breadth and implementation of these arrangements are unclear, limiting the basis for describing the partnership as especially close.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Turkey and Djibouti have pursued practical cooperation through bilateral agreements and development engagement. During Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 2015 visit to Djibouti, the governments signed agreements covering areas including education, health, agriculture and water. The scope and implementation of these arrangements are not clear enough to characterize the relationship as a close partnership.
Key developments
During Erdoğan’s visit to Djibouti, the two governments signed agreements covering areas including education, health, agriculture and water.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of the bilateral agreements are unclear.
- The extent of ongoing Turkish development cooperation in Djibouti is uncertain.