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Sisi goes to Turkey tomorrow to seal the reconciliation with Erdogan

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will visit Ankara tomorrow, Wednesday, where he will meet with his Turkish counterpart as part of a visit aimed at sealing the reconciliation between the two countries, the Turkish presidency announced today. The visit is being carried out “in response” to Erdogan’s visit to Egypt in mid-February, the presidency explained in its statement. The two leaders had moved to open a “new page” in relations between Ankara and Cairo, which were abruptly severed after Sisi came to power in 2013. Sisi’s ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, who came from the Muslim Brotherhood and a major ally of Turkey, then made President Erdogan swear that he would “never” speak to “someone like” Sisi. Convergence in diplomacy However, relations between the two men have improved for nearly two years, with their interests now converging on several regional issues, such as […]
Source: News Beast

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