Relationship dossier
Turkey
Uganda
Relationship assessment
Turkey and Uganda maintain constructive ties, with agreements and cooperation in trade, education, agriculture and development.
Turkey toward Uganda
+30Turkey has supported development projects in Uganda through its development cooperation agency, TİKA. During President Erdoğan’s 2016 visit, Turkey concluded bilateral agreements covering areas including trade, education and agriculture.
Uganda toward Turkey
+25Uganda has engaged in bilateral agreements with Turkey, including agreements advanced during President Erdoğan’s 2016 visit to Kampala, covering areas such as trade, education and agriculture. The extent of Uganda’s subsequent implementation is unclear.
Overall relationship
+30The relationship has a practical cooperative basis, including bilateral agreements and Turkish development projects in Uganda. The 2016 high-level visit helped advance cooperation across several sectors. The scale and durability of these initiatives are not clear enough to characterize the relationship as a close partnership.
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 Uganda have pursued practical cooperation through bilateral agreements and Turkish development projects in Uganda. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 2016 visit to Kampala advanced cooperation in areas including trade, education and agriculture. These initiatives indicate constructive ties, although the scale and continuity of implementation are unclear.
Key developments
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Uganda, and the two governments advanced bilateral agreements in areas including trade, education and agriculture.
Turkey’s development cooperation agency, TİKA, undertook development projects in Uganda.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral agreements are unclear.
- The scale and continuity of Turkish development projects in Uganda are unclear.