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Egypt and Turkey announced that they had appointed ambassadors to each other’s countries for the first time in a decade indicating a warming of diplomatic relations
Egypt and Turkey announced that they had appointed ambassadors to each other’s countries for the first time in a decade indicating a warming of diplomatic relations.
The foreign ministries in Cairo and Ankara reported improved diplomatic relations between the two countries at the ambassadorial level. Egypt’s ambassador to Turkey will be Amr Elhamamy and Turkish Salih Mutlu Sen will hold office in Cairo. These appointments mark a rapprochement between the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Relations were severed ten years ago when Sissi, then Egypt’s Defence Minister, overthrew his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi, a Turkish ally and member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement. At the time, Erdogan said he would never talk to “someone” like Mr Sissi, who became president of the Arab world’s most populous nation in 2014.The first signs of a thaw in relations appeared in May 2021, when a Turkish delegation visited Egypt to discuss possible normalisation. In November, the two leaders shook hands in Qatar, a handshake described by the Egyptian Presidency as a new beginning in bilateral relations.
