Mogadishu (PP Information Desk) — As the stress between Somalia and Ethiopia grows following the unlawful, maritime Memorandum of Understating signed in January 2024 by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed and the President of Somaliland, a self-proclaimed, secessionist administration in Somalia, Turkish authorities’s strategic research consultants have voiced worries that Ethiopia intends to use the weaker navy standing of Somalia by threatening to make use of Bayraktar TB2 drones inside Somalia in opposition to the Somali Nationwide Military to grasp its aim to implement its coverage to arrange a naval base within the Northern coastal area of Awdal.
In 2021 Türkiye offered Bayraktar TB2 drones to Ethiopia, thereby altering the dynamics of the Ethiopian civil warfare when TPLF forces advancing to 200 Addis Ababa. Turkish drones halted the advance of TPLF forces. The Ethiopian Defence Forces makes use of the Turkish drones in opposition to FANO, the Amhara armed resistance forces, however targets civilian-populated areas the Ethiopian authorities deems to be sympathetic to the FANO trigger.
Türkiye trains the Somali Nationwide Military and maintains a navy base in Somalia, however its leverage with the Ethiopian regime has decreased following the Turkish assist for the territorial and political unity of Somalia. Türkiye is reportedly wanting into sending a naval expedition to the Somali coasts to defend its ally in opposition to potential aggression by the regime of Abiy Ahmed whose forces are actually armed with the deadly Bayraktar TB2 drones.
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