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2012.
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Summary/Abstract |
Istanbul-Late one August night in 2011, Rifat Saricaoglu, the head of Turkey's association of private universities, received a call from the office of the prime minister. Saricaoglu had three hours to gather as many university scholarship pledges for Somali students as possible. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was about to fly to Mogadishu, making the first visit to Somalia by a non-African head of state since the country's last effective government was ousted in 1991, and Erdogan wanted to present a momentous gift.
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