Turkey has an embassy in Bissau.

Guinea Bissau has an embassy in Ankara.

[1] Turkey has helped Guinea-Bissau's lack of infrastructure for education that resulted from Portuguese policies.

[2] The Portuguese missão civilizadora,[3] in the words[4] of the Cardinal[5] Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira in 1960, was to teach the natives to write, to read and to count, but not make them doctors.

Turkey—through[6] TIKA—gave extensive assistance in building schools beyond the rudimentary ensinos de adaptação[5] left behind by the Portuguese.