Saturday, September 19, 2020

Turkey poised to shape transition and post-coup Islamist government in Mali

 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is the first high level, non-African official to visit Mali since the coup in August in order to shape the transition period in line with his government’s Islamist policies.

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was forced to resign and dissolve the parliament and government as a result of a coup by a military junta in Mali on August 18, 2020. International organizations including the UN, the EU, the African Union and ECOWAS have strongly condemned the military action and called for the immediate restoration of the constitution. Members of the UN Security Council have urged the Malian military to immediately release the country’s president and members of his government and return to their barracks without delay..

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