Somalilandsun:Suddenly, everything is about a tiny, unrecognized state that few will ever have heard of: Somaliland. The fate of this piece of geopolitical real estate is now tied up with everything from Israel’s war on Gaza to the Houthi attacks on the Red Sea, and quite a few geopolitical centers of activity in between the two.
The fact that a UK defense minister is spreading rumors that U.S. president-elect Donald Trump will officially recognize Somaliland, a strategic breakaway region of Somalia that sits on the Red Sea, is only one of many dominoes falling around this tiny would-be nation.
In 1991, Somalia, a former British protectorate, claimed independence from Somalia, and it’s survived more or less quietly since then–until its strategic positioning on the Red Sea made it a prized possession of high-level geopolitical consequence.
Turkey’s been milling around it for ages, already, with Erdogan always spotting opportunities well in advance. But Turkey’s game is to shore up its power in Somalia, not Somaliland, and its strategy is a broader one: to pre-insert itself in various situations that position it to have a strong enough business foothold and act as an indispensable mediator and power broker (like in Libya). Ethiopia and Somalia are fighting over it. Turkey and Greece are fighting over it. Egypt, too, has some skin in this game, as does Israel, which is looking for some prime real estate to safely bomb the Houthis from.
This is an article by oil price …Everyone wants a piece of Somaliland…
