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Turkey’s Ambassador tasked with Somaliland and Somalia talks, Ambassador Olgan Bekar has been in Addis Ababa for the past few days.
Ambassador Olgan Bekar held meetings with senior Ethiopian government officials and the Somali ambassador to Addis Ababa. He also held various meetings in Addis Ababa.
On December 5, Ambassador Bekar attended a meeting in Addis Ababa to address peace and security in the Horn of Africa region. The meeting, which announced by the Turkish embassy in Addis Ababa, failed to give the details of the envoy’s remarks.
On Friday, last week , he met with Ms. Hitut Zemene , Ethiopian state minister in charge of Foreign Affairs in Addis Ababa., in a brief statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Ethiopian state minister and Ambassador Olgan Bekar during their meeting they discussed matters relating to Somalia. “Ethiopian Foreign Minister Hirut Zemene held talks with Turkey’s special envoy to Somalia. The State Minister spoke about Ethiopia’s efforts to help build peace, security and create economic integration in the Horn of Africa region.
The Turkish envoy on his part lauded Ethiopia for its efforts in the region and explained the various ways in which Turkey contributes to the restoration of peace and stability in Somalia. ” But failed to mention that the envoy is the Turkish ambassador for Somaliland and Somalia talks.
Ambassador Olgan Bekar also met with Mr. Abdihakim Abdulahi Camey, Somalia’s Ambassador to Addis Ababa (also Puntland region's ex Vice President), and the recently sacked Puntland Parliament Speaker Abdihakim Mohamed Dhobo in Addis Ababa. Both men are of Somaliland origin, and both are staunch anti-Somaliland, aligned with Puntland region of Somalia.
There is no official statement from the Turkish envoys regarding his meeting with the anti-Somaliland individuals , he should be reminded of his duties and mandated tasked with Somaliland and Somalia talks, and it appears that the envoy is busy with activities relating with bend with destabilizing and undermining Somalind sovereign,Mr. Olgan and his master should not mistake their mission to relate to dialogue, though Somaliland seems to be out of the picture in their context.
It is unclear whether President Bihi’s government is aware of these diplomatic activities, but no one in Somaliland announced that the ambassador had held a meeting in Addis Ababa.
https://banaadirweyne.com/turkey-sides- ... s-meeting/Turkey Sides Squarely With Somalia Against Somaliland in Addis Meeting
The special Turkish envoy to the talks, Ambassador Olgar Bekar, flew to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for talks with elements striving to carve Somaliland into states. Ambassador Bekar met with Abdikahim Mohamed Ahmed ‘Dhoobo-Daareed’, the former Puntland Region's Parliamentary Speaker, who had been evicted by the Puntland parliament on 7 November and Abdihakim Omar Amey, the Somalia Ambassador to Ethiopia and former Puntland Vice President on Friday.
Dhoobo-daareed has been, since his eviction, busy putting together a so-called federal-Somalia loyal state in Eastern Sanaag of Somaliland to be called Makhir or Highland. He had proclaimed that, together with Sool and Buuhoodle areas, he aimed to form another clan-based federal Somalia state uniting these regions. Dhoobo-daareed’s primary objective, he said, was to show Puntland authorities that he was an authority to be reckoned with and that Eastern Sanaag areas which he hailed from would no longer be part of Puntland.
Abdihakim Amey, the former Vice President of the Puntland Federal State of Somalia, comes from the Buuhoodle area. He had never concealed his undivided desire to bring Buuhoodle under the federal system of Somalia.
Eastern Sanaag, Sool, and Buuhoodle are historically, geographically and politically within the Somaliland Republic boundaries. Somalia, however, operating through Puntland, in part, and on direct interventions, on other occasions, has set aside a separate budget for the fragmentation of the Somaliland Republic taking advantage of its diplomatically recognized status with the world despite Somaliland’s more superior track record in state-building, democracy and stability for the past 29 years.
Ambassador Olgar Bekar represented his country in Mogadishu from November 2014 to November 2018 when he was replaced by the incumbent Mehmet Yilmaz.This latest appearance of Ambassador Bekar with the two protagonists of a Somalia federal state within Somaliland confirms Somaliland suspicions that Turkey is neither honest in its claims of neutrality nor had any intention of jeopardizing its hold on a teetering Somalia for objectivity. Neither Bekar nor Turkey, itself, can credibly deny the ramifications of the ill-advised meeting which ensconced him with ultra federal Somalia loyalists.
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