By Nardine Ali / Cairo After eight years of deteriorated relations between Egypt and Turkey, a Turkish delegation consisting of diplomatic and security officials met in Cairo on May 4th their Egyptian counterparts during a two-day-visit. The visit, described by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry as an “exploratory round of consultations” between Egypt and Turkey, was led by the deputy Deputy ...
Dr. Basem Naim, one of the leaders of the Palestinian resistance organization HAMAS, has spoken to UWI expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan about the recent events in East Jerusalem. Naim has been Minister of Health in Palestine and is currently member of Hamas’ International Relations Bureau. He said his organization would give a “strong and clear response” to Israeli attacks on ...
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 ...
United World International has organized a press meeting with Ersin Tatar, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on April 22nd, 2021. The meeting has caused a considerable press echo. The Egyptian newspaper Al Wafd participated in the meeting and published a report. The Egyptian newspaper Al Wafd’s participation and reporting has on the other hand caused considerable echo ...
Last week, the public agenda in Turkey was busy with four main topics. First, was the mutual positive messages and signs of cooperation and a potential meeting date given between Turkish and Egyptian top diplomats. Secondly, the Greek government appointed Muslim muftis, causing a crisis, because the appointment is against the Lausanne Treaty. Thirdly, the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu ...
Meeting between Chinese and Turkish top diplomats; Government party congress; Turkish condolences over the train accident in Egypt; Turkish-Uzbek joint military drill; Vaccination Efforts and the normalization process amidst the pandemic Last week, the Turkish public agenda was busy with five main topics. The first of these topics was the diplomatic visit of the Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic ...
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. ...
Last week, the public agenda in Turkey had been busy with two main topics. First topic was the potential reconciliation between Egypt and Turkey over their maritime borders in the Eastern Mediterranean. The countries have had sour relations since 2013. The second topic was the vaccination efforts and the normalization process in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Reconciliation with Egypt over ...
Yaşar Yakış, born 1938, is a founding member of Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party. Yakış has been Minister for Foreign Affairs 2002 – 2003 and Member of the Turkish Parliament between 2002 and 2011. Yakış entered the Foreign Ministry in 1962 and served different posts in Belgium, Nigeria and Syria as well as being part of the Turkish NATO ...
Turkey and Egypt are in the middle of a historic process. The two countries have the opportunity to change the equation in the region and especially in the Eastern Mediterranean, if the right steps are taken. Turkey has interpreted recent decisions of Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean as a move of goodwill, and Ankara has started calls to Cairo for ...