Erdogan: Turkey in contact with Egypt to take step at highest level

CAIRO – 19 August 2022: Turkish President Recept Tayeb Erdogan said that his country should not be in dispute with the Egyptian nation.

“Türkiye continues contacts with Egypt at the level of ministers, President Erdogan says, hoping to take this step at highest level 'because people of Egypt are our brothers,” he was quoted by the Anadolu news agency on Friday.

Türkiye continues contacts with Egypt at level of ministers, President Erdogan says, hoping to take this step at highest level 'because people of Egypt are our brothers'

— ANADOLU AGENCY (@anadoluagency) August 19, 2022

Turkish-Egyptian ties have strained since 2013 when Erdogan criticized the Jaune 30 Revolution that thwarted the ruling of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group. Also, Turkey’s relations with some Gulf countries are strained due to its support to terrorists and interference in other neighboring countries’ affairs like Libya and Syria.

After being internationally isolated due to his foreign policy, Turkey started courting Cairo. Spokesman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ibrahim Kalin told Bloomberg last year that his country is ready to normalize ties with Egypt and some Gulf States.

In March of the last year, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry affirmed the government's keenness to maintain close relationship between the two people of Egypt and Turkey regardless of the ‘negative political stances’ of Ankara against Cairo.