Relationship dossier
Turkey
Guinea-Bissau
Relationship assessment
Bilateral cooperation includes high-level engagement and agreements in several sectors.
Turkey toward Guinea-Bissau
+25Turkey has supported cooperation with Guinea-Bissau through development assistance and scholarship opportunities, and has pursued bilateral agreements in areas including defense, education, agriculture, and media.
Guinea-Bissau toward Turkey
+20Guinea-Bissau has engaged Turkey at the highest level and entered bilateral cooperation agreements covering areas including defense, education, agriculture, and media.
Overall relationship
+25The relationship combines high-level engagement with practical cooperation across several sectors. Agreements and Turkish assistance provide a basis for sustained ties, although the extent of their implementation and the broader scale of cooperation are unclear.
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 Guinea-Bissau have pursued bilateral cooperation through high-level engagement and agreements covering areas including defense, education, agriculture, and media. Turkish development assistance and scholarship opportunities have also contributed to the relationship. The known cooperation is concrete but its scope and implementation are not clear enough to characterize the partnership as especially extensive.
Key developments
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló made an official visit to Turkey, during which the two governments pursued agreements in several areas of cooperation.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral agreements are unclear.
- The scale and continuity of Turkish development assistance and scholarship programs are uncertain.