By Şafak Erdem Israel continues to attack Gaza. A critical phase of the offensive remains the Rafah border crossing and the Sinai Peninsula. Parallel to the developments in Rafah and Sinai, there rises some voices in Egypt questioning the Camp David agreement with some openly advocating to discard it. We asked Ramazan Bursa, an expert on Egypt, what Egypt’s attitude ...
And they posed for a photo. After 9 years of crises, President Erdoğan and his Egyptian counterpart al-Sisi met in Qatar. There are claims that it was not just a photo, but also a short meeting. Qatar is reportedly the mediator. There has been a lot of ebb and flow between Türkiye and Egypt in the recent period. First, messages ...
“There is no war without Egypt and no peace without Syria.” This phrase, repeated by many Arab diplomats, experts and officials during the past decades, is more than just verbal rhetoric. It reflects the complex nature of the relationship between the two countries. In other words, one country cannot do without the other. One hand holds the key to war ...
A delegation from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry will visit Ankara between September 7 and 8 to hold exploratory talks. United World International interviewed the former Deputy Foreign Minister of Egypt, Rakha Ahmed Hassan on the visit’s content. The relations between Ankara and Cairo have been at odds since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government in 2013. Since then, these ...
On December 17, 2010, Tunisia witnessed huge demonstrations against the rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali following an incident where a vegetable seller burned himself after his goods were confiscated by the police. The massive and continuous demonstrations succeeded in toppling the authoritarian regime led by Ben Ali within less than a month of the incident. Many countries ...
The events in Tunisia are discussed throughout West Asia. Turkey’s Vatan Party, which has extended relations to regional countries including Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, has organized a meeting within its Office of International Relations, where the latest events in Tunisia and its possible impacts on Turkey were discussed in detail. At the meeting Professor Cuneyt Akalin, Dr. Mehmet Perincek and ...
By Nardine Ali / Cairo Will we see Al Sisi in Doha soon? The year of 2021 has been a solid proof that there is no forever in the science of international relations or in politics, since the Arab region has witnessed the birth of new coalitions and the death of other ones. One of the new coalitions that has ...
It seems that the course of negotiations between Egypt and Turkey to improve their relations will not be easy, despite all the atmosphere of optimism surrounding the recent meeting between the delegations of the two countries in Cairo. Recent months have seen attempts by Turkey’s official side to calm tensions with Cairo, which turned sour after the Revolution of June ...
Turkey and Egypt, two nations on opposing sides of the Eastern Mediterranean, have initiated the first steps towards a normalization process. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavuşoğlu has announced that an official delegation from Ankara will visit Cairo and held diplomatic contacts during the first week of May. The Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has signaled that his country is ready ...
The crisis that the Egyptian-Turkish relations witnessed in recent years was not an exceptional event in the history of diplomatic relations between the two countries, which began in 1925 after the proclamation of the Turkish Republic. Any examination of the course of relations between the two countries clearly reveals that these relations ranged from ebb and flow, prospering only temporarily. ...