title: Guinea-Bissau–Turkey relations
text: # Guinea-Bissau–Turkey relations
  
  Guinea-Bissau–Turkey relations are the foreign relations between Guinea-Bissau and Turkey. Turkey has an embassy in Bissau. Guinea Bissau has an embassy in Ankara.
  
  ## Diplomatic relations
  
  Turkey has helped Guinea-Bissau's lack of infrastructure for education that resulted from Portuguese policies. The Portuguese missão civilizadora, in the words of the Cardinal Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira in 1960, was to teach the natives to write, to read and to count, but not make them doctors. Turkey—through TIKA—gave extensive assistance in building schools beyond the rudimentary ensinos de adaptação left behind by the Portuguese.
  
  ## Economic relations
  
  * Trade volume between the two countries was 4.95 million USD in 2019.
  