Turkey’s foreign minister will visit Cairo on Saturday, a decade after Egypt’s then-president and Ankara’s friend Mohamed Mursi was overthrown.
Turkey’s top diplomat, Mevlut Cavusoglu, will travel for the first time since July 2013, when Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overthrew Mursi.
Two weeks earlier, Cavusoglu’s Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shourky, visited Turkey to demonstrate solidarity following the huge earthquakes that killed over 50,000 in Turkey and Syria.
Turkey’s foreign ministry said they would address all elements of bilateral ties and regional and international affairs. Egypt’s foreign ministry announced the visit simultaneously.
Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party backed Mursi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader who died in 2019.
Turkey-Egypt relations are improving.
In Qatar, Sisi and Erdogan clasped hands.
Sisi and Erdogan spoke by phone after last month’s catastrophic earthquakes, and Egypt’s Shoukry visited Turkey on Feb. 27, another first in a decade.
Turkey’s Cavusoglu said he might visit Egypt soon and that Erdogan and Sisi could meet “either in Turkey or Egypt” after viewing earthquake-hit areas.
In November, Cavusoglu suggested Turkey might re-appoint its ambassador to Cairo “in coming months” as another gesture of normalization.
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