In the last week, Turkish public agenda had been busy with two main topics. First topic was a possible reconciliation between Egypt and Turkey, two countries that had tense relations over couple years. Second topic was the ongoing vaccination efforts, the local normalization efforts and the Health Ministry’s ongoing struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Turkey could sign an agreement on ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu has made today in press conference important declarations concerning the Turkish-Egyptian relations in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean. In response to the relations of Ankara and Cairo, which have been tense since 2013, Çavuşoğlu said the following: “Egypt has declared that it will conduct gas exploration activities in the Eastern Mediterranean in respect to our ...
The US elections, the recent events in Libya and reconciliation in the Gulf are not only on the agenda of Turkey but also on that of the world. I interviewed Rakha Ahmed Hassan, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, another key country of West Asia besides Turkey and Iran, Egypt’s perspectives on the issues as well as stance ...
By Nardine Ali (Egypt) Egypt, finally, acknowledges Sarraj’s government in Libya In an unprecedented step that has overturned Libya’s political and military situations, Egypt has approached the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli, sparking approbation and discontent in several capitals around the world. The first Egyptian delegation to be sent to Tripoli in 6 years included the deputy Director ...
2020 has been a year that will be remembered for decades, even centuries. There might not be another year in which the worries and hopes of all the nations were so common. Billions of people’s lives have changed, people asked the same questions and had the same expectations at the same time around all seven seas. We have gathered some ...
By Nardine Ali (Egypt) UAE-Israel peace deal ends honeymoon between Cairo and Abu Dhabi After years of cold relations between the Gulf states and Israel, a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House on September 15th, 2020, brokered by President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, has revived the dream of ...
Abdurrahman Salahuddin, the Former Egyptian Ambassador to Ankara, has given an exclusive interview for the Turkish TV channel KRT. During the interview, he spoke about the current disputes between the two countries, while giving his assessments about a diplomatic rapprochement. Here are some highlights of that interview: “I presented my letter of credence with my wife to the Former President ...
The article titled “Proposals for normalization in Turkish-Egyptian relations” by our columnist Mohamed Sabreen, Managing Editor for Al-Ahram Newspaper, has drawn quite a lot of attention within Turkish political circles. The possibility of a rehabilitation of Ankara and Cairo relations, which have been trending downwards since the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in 2013, have been widely discussed. Aydinlik, one of ...