Report: Erdoğan's anti-Turkish school rhetoric damages Turkish-African ties

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's unrelenting denunciation of schools affiliated with the Gülen community and calls for the closure of the schools over the past two years have been harshly criticized in the central African country of Cameroon.

Kimse Yok Mu water well for Cameroon

Board members of Kimse Yok Mu Foundation’s Sanliurfa chapter (an Eastern Turkish province) recently established a water well in Cameroon. The water well has been now serving some 700 locals. The board members established the water well in Kodogo city by raising 4 thousand dollars. The chairman Mehmet Akan Isikyildiz said, “We usually encourage people to donate. But we should do it ourselves first so that we can expect people to do the same. Every member contributed to the water well construction within their budgets and thus made it possible for the locals to drink clean water. I would like to thank them all.”

Cameroon delegation meets with Kimse Yok Mu

A delegation from Cameroon, including Prime Minister Philemong Yang’s wife, were in the Turkish province Bursa, in order to share experiences of Kimse Yok Mu (KYM) for their future projects. The delegation had meetings with KYM officials, as a part of a newly founded charitable foundation in Cameroon. They seek benefiting from KYM’s experiences and using them in their charity work. They were pleased with the warm reception and KYM Bursa director Sadullah Hizan’s presentation on the foundation’s work.

Deputy PM Bozdağ attends opening of Turkish school in Cameroon

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ attended the opening of a Turkish school in Cameroon, established by the Aziz Mahmut Hüdayi Foundation, on Saturday.

Kimse Yok Mu establishes 16 water wells in Cameroon

Kimse Yok Mu Bursa Chapter’s efforts launched four months ago in order to establish water wells in African countries have started to bear fruits. With the money from fundraisings and several drives, 16 water wells have been made available to the locals in N'Gaundere region of Cameroon.

Cameroonian Governor Thanked Turkish Nation for the Turkish Schools

Abakar Ahmat, the Governor of Ngaundere state, Republic of Cameroon, paid a visit to Sahabettin Harput, the Governor of Bursa, Turkey. Mr. Ahmat thanked Mr. Harput for the Turkish schools in Cameroon on behalf of the Turkish nation.

Turkey's top Muslim cleric visits Turkish school in Cameroon

Religious Affairs Directorate President Mehmet Görmez visited a Turkish school in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde on Monday, where he praised the contribution of Turkish schools in Africa.

Ottoman Dreaming: The Turks have new ambitions for trade and influence in Africa

Kinshasa & Yaounde

Mbombo Ibrahim Moubarak, an Islamic cleric who runs Cameroon’s Islamic humanitarian-assistance programme, has a dream. “Turkey must reclaim its mantle as leader of the Islamic world,” he said on March 17th, as Abdullah Gul became the first Turkish president to visit Cameroon and Congo. Mr Moubarak believes that Turkey’s brand of moderate Islam, which embraces Western-style democracy and the free market, offers a model for Africa’s Muslims. He sees nothing sinister about the mosques, madrassas and schools built, restored or run by Sunni Turks across the continent.