Turkey Reaches Out to Mend Ties With Egypt

Date: 21 August 2016 - 20:53

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ANKARA (FNA) – Turkey wants to patch up its differences with Egypt's regime after years of tension caused by ‘2013 military coup’ against the former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
Relations between the two countries soured following the overthrow of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a close ally of the Turkish government, in 2013, leading to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s takeover.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly condemned the ouster as a "coup d'etat" against Morsi.
He has also shown solidarity at rallies by flashing the four-finger "Rabaa" hand salute, seen as a symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"We think we need to develop economic and cultural ties with Egypt as countries that use the two sides of the Mediterranean," Yildirim told reporters at a briefing in Istanbul.