H.E. Mr. Bekir Bozdağ, Deputy Prime Minister and H.E. Mr. Cevdet Yılmaz, Minister of Development will visit respectively Somalia and Sudan on 23-24 February 2013. H.E. Mr. Bekir Bozdağ and H.E. Mr. Cevdet Yılmaz will attend the groundbreaking ceremonies as well as inaugurations of schools, hospitals, mosques and orphanages constructed by Turkish governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations in Somalia and Sudan and will have bilateral talks with their counterparts.

Turkey will continue to attribute special importance to the development of bilateral relations with brotherly Somalia and Sudan which are two important countries of the Africa Continent and with which Turkey has deep historical and cultural bonds.