ABSTRACT
In 1992, President George H. W. Bush agreed to enforce a March 1992 United Nation (UN) resolution that pledged to rehabilitate Somalia's economy and reestablish national and regional institutions. As part of the Global War on Terrorism, the United States (US) has followed a policy in Somalia—through both military operations and diplomatic efforts with the international community—to prevent Somalia from becoming a haven for terrorists. The George W. Bush administration, seeing Somalia through the lens of its War on Terror, and having botched the earlier warlord program, began stepping up aid to longtime ally and neighboring Ethiopian, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. He denied US involvement in the country's counterattacks on Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts. In 2010, Turkey signed an agreement to train Somali soldiers at an UN-backed international Somalia summit in Istanbul. During Somalia's devastating drought in 2011, Turkey launched a major diplomatic, economic, and humanitarian push to help Somalia.
