Turkey seeks bigger trade with presidential visit

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech during the mukhtars (local town government heads) meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on March 16, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN

Perennially boxed out of big Kenyan businesses by China, Turkey is plotting to turn the tables on the Asian giant through a presidential visit to Kenya later in the year.

Turkish government officials, including a senior undersecretary at the Turkish foreign affairs department, have confirmed that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) will visit Kenya in the “next few months.”