{"id":402400,"date":"2021-01-06T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T07:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402400"},"modified":"2021-01-06T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T07:21:20","slug":"turkey-provides-commando-training-to-somali-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/turkey-provides-commando-training-to-somali-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey provides commando training to Somali soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA,Turkey\u2014\u00a0Some 150 Somali army soldiers are receiving special commando training in Turkey under a military cooperation pact between the two countries, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The training of the Somali Armed Forces soldiers is taking place at the Counter-Terrorism Training and Exercise Center in Turkey\u2019s southwestern province of Isparta, said a ministry statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We are providing Commando Basic Training to 150 guest military personnel from the Somali Armed Forces,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe training, which began on Dec. 21, 2020, has been continuing as planned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last August, Turkey\u2019s Ambassador to Mogadishu Mehmet Yilmaz told Anadolu Agency that Turkey is on track to train some one-third of Somali military forces, totaling around 15,000-16,000 personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Turkey and the Horn of Africa nation are historically strong, and picked up pace after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s official visit in 2011, making him the only non-African leader to visit Somalia in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has also been continuing its support to Somalia with humanitarian aid in the areas of health, education and security.<\/p>\n<p>As it has extensive experience fighting terrorists, Turkish training of the Somali military is also helpful in countering Somalia\u2019s own terrorist threat.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA,Turkey\u2014\u00a0Some 150 Somali army soldiers are receiving special commando training in Turkey under a military cooperation pact between the two countries, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The training of the Somali Armed Forces soldiers is taking place at the Counter-Terrorism Training and Exercise Center in Turkey\u2019s southwestern province of Isparta, said a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":402401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402402,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402400\/revisions\/402402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}