Just as Kurds were jubilantly celebrating the end of the Islamic State (IS) siege of Kobani, a city that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Oct. 7 to be on the verge of falling, another part of the world — the Horn of Africa countries and especially Somalia — were witnessing a show put on by Turks playing for the leadership of the Muslim world.
Erdogan, who started his Africa tour from Ethiopia, interrupted it for a short while to attend the funeral of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, and then resumed it with visits to Djibouti and Somalia.