Pro-Ankara blogs blame UAE/Israel for Somali anger at Turkish firms. The author says read the books: Favori keeps 75% of Mogadishu airport revenue through 2028; auditors say 2025 should have sent ~$7.43m to the treasury and ~$4.15m arrived. Favori and port operator Albayrak have not filed required independent audits (~$34.26m unverified). Parliament never voted the deals; workers struck over foreign hires.

Hobyo: an 80-year Metag port concession (Oct 2024)—far longer than the usual 20–25 years. SOMTURK, six days old, got exclusive control of Somalia’s waters and EEZ (Dec 2025); the revenue split is unpublished.

Long, opaque concessions that outlive the government that signed them (Suez, Hong Kong) are the pattern, not a psy-op. An MP says his committee still cannot see the contracts. Somalis doing the arithmetic are not extras in someone else’s information war.

Pro-Turkey bloggers have settled on an explanation for the rising anti-Turkish sentiment across Somalia: Somalis are not reacting to anything Ankara has done. They are being played. A sprawling plot, cooked up by the UAE, Israel and unnamed “Zionists,” is said to be manufacturing the anger from nothing, purpose-built to drive apart two nations that share a faith.

Set that aside for a moment. Set aside, too, the contempt buried in the theory itself, which casts ordinary Somalis as props in someone else’s information war rather than citizens capable of judging for themselves who runs their airport, their ports and their fisheries. The claim is a deflection, and deflections are worth testing rather than arguing with. If Somali anger at Turkish companies really is manufactured, it should not survive contact with the public record. It does.

Start with the airport. Favori LLC, a Turkish aviation firm under the Kozuva Group, has managed Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu since 2013, when it signed an initial 20-year concession with the federal government. An amended agreement signed May 16, 2019, reset the split: Favori keeps 75% of gross revenue, the government gets 25%, and the contract runs through 2028. Somalia’s Office of the Auditor General, in findings Garowe Online reported in August, put Favori’s 2025 gross revenue at about $29.71 million, which under that formula should have sent roughly $7.43 million to the treasury. Government records show only about $4.15 million arrived — a $3.27 million gap the Auditor General said left the reported concession revenue neither complete nor verifiable. That single year sits inside a bigger, older hole: auditors say they cannot verify a combined $34.26 million in fees owed by Favori and by Albayrak Group, the Turkish operator of Mogadishu Port, because neither company has ever submitted the independently audited statements their own contracts require.

Training and staffing tell a similar story. A 2024 special audit recommended, more than a decade into Favori’s tenure, that the........

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