{"id":23018,"date":"2026-09-05T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23018"},"modified":"2026-09-05T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:14:06","slug":"drones-and-influence-exclusive-investigation-into-turkeys-power-play-in-africa-france-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23018","title":{"rendered":"Drones and influence: Exclusive investigation into Turkey&#8217;s power play in Africa \u2022 FRANCE 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey&nbsp;is working hard to maintain and expand its influence in Africa, sometimes&nbsp;at the expense of France.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drones and influence: Exclusive investigation into Turkey&amp;apos;s power play in Africa \u2022 FRANCE 24\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1m-DUMEg-x4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey is working hard to maintain and expand its influence in Africa, sometimes at the expense of France. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1m-DUMEg-x4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[417,390,553,272,355,414,314,259,2309,418,1055],"class_list":["post-23018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-africa","tag-diplomacy","tag-drones","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-france","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-senegal","tag-turkey","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23019,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018\/revisions\/23019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}