Guinea-Bissau–Turkey relations explained

Guinea-Bissau–Turkey relations are the foreign relations between Guinea-Bissau and Turkey. Turkey has an embassy in Bissau. Guinea Bissau has an embassy in Ankara.^[1]

Diplomatic relations

Turkey has helped Guinea-Bissau's lack of infrastructure for education that resulted from Portuguese policies.^[2] The Portuguese missão civilizadora,^[3] in the words^[4] of the Cardinal^[5] Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira in 1960, was to teach the natives to write, to read and to count, but not make them doctors. Turkey—through^[6] TIKA—gave extensive assistance in building schools beyond the rudimentary ensinos de adaptação left behind by the Portuguese.

Economic relations

• Trade volume between the two countries was 4.95 million USD in 2019.^[6]

See also

• Foreign relations of Guinea-Bissau
• Foreign relations of Turkey

Further reading

• "A Economia Colonial da Guiné-Bissau: Nacionalização e Exploração, 1915-1959."in, Soronda, Revista de Estudos Guinéense. No. 9: pp. 25-51. INEP, Bissau., Jan. 1990.
• "A Guiné ou Senegâmbia Portuguesa. No tempo do Governador Pedro Inácio de Gouveia." Boletim Cultural da Guiné Portuguesa, Bissau, vol. 7, n. 26, 1952, pp. 403-476.
• "Portugal in Africa." Foreign Affairs, XXXIX: pp. 481-493. New York: G.P. Putnam. 1961.
• Abshire, David M. and Michael A. Samuels, Portuguese Africa: A Handbook. New York: Praeger, 1969.
• Africa (Cronológia, do sec. XV a XX). Lisbon: Editorial Estampa, 1979.
• Agência Geral do Ultramar. Estatuto dos Indigenas Portugueses das Provincias da Guiné, Angola e Mozambique. Lisbon, 1954
• Ajayi, J. F. A., and Crowder, Michael. History of West Africa, 2 vols. Columbia University Press: New York, 1972.
• Angola Comité. Portugal and NATO, 3rd edition. Amsterdam, 1972. Anon. Liberation Struggle in Portuguese Colonies. New Delhi:
• Axelson, Eric. Congo to Cape: Early Portuguese Explorers. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973.
• Boulegue, Jean. Les Luso-Africains de Senegambie. Lisboa: Ministério da Educação, 1989.
• Brooks, George E. Jr. Luso-African Commerce and Settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau Region. Boston University, African Studies Center, Working Papers Number 24, 1980.
• Castro, Armando. O Sistema Colonial Português em Africa (Meados do SéculoXX). Lisbon: Editorial Caminho, 1979.
• Chilcote, Ronald H. Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa: Documents. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 1972.
• Colonialismo Português em Africa: A Tradição de Resistência na Guiné-Bissau, (1879-1959). Bissau: Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, 1994.
• Corrêa, António A. Mendes. Ultramar Português. II. llhas de Cabo Verde. Lisbon: Agência Geral do Ultramar, 1954.
• Cortesão, Jaime. Os Descobrimentos Portuguêses. 6 vols., 1980 (vols. I e 2, 3.); 1975 (vol 4); 1976 (vol. 5); 1978 (vol. 6). Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.
• Cortesão, Jaime. Os Portuguêses em Africa. Lisbon: Portugália Editora, 1968.
• Duffy, James. Shipwreck and Empire: Being an Account of Portuguese Maritime Disasters in a Century of Decline. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955.
• Dunn, John. West African States: Failure and Promise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
• Durieux, A. "Essai sur le Statut des Indigènes Portugais de la Guinée, de l'Angola et du Mozambique." Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences Coloniales-8, V, 3 (1955).
• Humbaraci, Arslan, and Nicole Muchnik. Portugal's African Wars. New York: Third World Press, 1973.
• Lavradio, Marques do. Portugal em Africa Depois de 1851. Lisbon: Agência Geral das Colonias, 1936.
• Livermore, Harold. A New History of Portugal. Cambridge, 2016.
• Lopes, Edmundo Armenio Correia. A Escravatura: Subsidios para a sua História. Lisbon: 2014.
• Marques, António Henrique de Oliveira. História de Portugal. Desde os Tempos mais Antigos até à Presidência do Sr. General Eanes. 3 vols. Lisboa: Palas Editores, 2002 (vol. 1, 9. ed.); 2013 (vol. 2, 10. ed.); 2019 (vol. 3, 6. ed.).
• Marques, João Martins de Silva. Descrobrimentos Portugueses: Documentos para a Sua historia. 2 vols., Lisboa: Institute para a Alta Cultura, 2014.
• Martins, Alfredo Cardoso de Soveral. Relatório do Governador da Guiné. Bolama: 2003.
• Marupa, M.A. Portuguese Africa in Perspective: The Making of a Multi-Racial State. 1973.
• Mauny, Raymond. "Navigations et Découvertes Portugaises sur les Côtes Ouest-Africaines." Boletim Cultural da Guiné Portuguesa. VII, 27(July 1952): pp. 515-24.
• Mees, Jules. "Les Manuscrits de la Crônica do Descobrimento e Conquista de Guiné par Gomes Eannes de Azurara et les Sources de João de Barros." Revista Portuguesa Colonial e Maritima. IX, 50: pp. 50-62, 2001.
• Mendy, Peter Karibe. "The Problems and Prospects of Liberation Education in Guinea-Bissau." Master of Social Science Dissertation, University of Birmingham, England, 1980.
• Nunez, Benjamin. Dictionary of Portuguese African Civilization, 2 vols., Amsterdam: Hans Zell, 1992.
• Portugal's Reasons for Remaining in the Overseas Provinces. Lisbon: Agência Geral do Ultramar, 1970.
• Portugal in Africa. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1962. Dumont, René and Marie France Mottin. L'Afrique Etranglée. Paris: Seuil, 1982.
• Portuguese Africa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.
• Portuguese Colonialism in Africa: The End of an Era. Paris: Unesco Press, 1974.
• Serrão, Joaquim V. História Breve da Históriografic Portuguesa. Lisbon: 2012.
• Serrão, Joel (ed.). Dicionário de História de Portugal, 4 vols. Lisbon, 2013-2020.

Notes and References

1. https://beyazgazete.com/video/webtv/guncel-1/ankara-disisleri-bakani-cavusoglu-gine-bissau-buyukelcilik-binasinin-acilis-torenine-katildi-953191.html ANKARA - Dışişleri Bakanı Çavuşoğlu, Gine-Bissau Büyükelçilik binasının açılış törenine katıldı (in Turkish)
2. Lopes, Edmundo Armenio Correia. A Escravatura: Subsidios para a sua História. Lisbon: 2014.
3. "A Economia Colonial da Guiné-Bissau: Nacionalização e Exploração, 1915-1959." in, Soronda, Revista de Estudos Guinéense. No. 9: pp. 25-51. INEP, Bissau., Jan. 1990.
4. Livermore, Harold. A New History of Portugal. Cambridge, 2016.
5. Serrão, Joel (ed.). Dicionário de História de Portugal, 4 vols. Lisbon, 2013-2020.
6. Web site: Relations between Turkey and Guinea Bissau. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey.