The Pace and the Pattern of Somalia’s Trade Relations with Turkey
The Pace and the Pattern of Somalia’s T rade Relations with Turkey Introduction Geography plays a crucial role in international trade and so that the distance between trading partner countries matters a lot. Meaning that the bigger the distance between countries, the lesser the trade between them (David, H., Dorn, D., & Hanson, G. H. 2013) . Turkey and Somalia are not geographically close to each other and the fact that Somalia has never been stable for a long period of time resulted in that the two nations to had almost zero or relatively too small trade relations in the past. But, ironically, for the last decade, the two nations have become trading partners and close allies, in some regards. The relations started when Turkey responded to the devastating droughts in Somalia with the necessary humanitarian assistance [1] in 2011 (Slim, H. 2012) . The prime minister of Turkey then, but now the president, paid a historic visit to Mogadishu, at that time of humanitarian ...