It seems that Egypt is determined to move ahead with what it started months ago: Developing its relations with all its neighbors. This was reflected in the visit of Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Syria and Türkiye. Shoukry’s visit to Syria was the first by a high-ranking Egyptian diplomat to Damascus since the start of the civil war in 2011. ...

The public agenda in Turkiye has been busy with three main topics last week. The first was the meeting that was held between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, in the opening ceremony of the Qatar World Cup 2022. Second was the ongoing debates on a possible diplomatic meeting between Erdogan and his ...

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 ...

Reporting from Cairo / Egypt The Qatari national team did not score in the opening match of the World Cup, which is currently being held in Qatar, any goal against Ecuador. But Qatar scored the most important political goal in the Middle East this year. A friendly handshake took place on the sidelines of the opening ceremony between Egyptian President ...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri announced that the normalization process between Türkiye and Egypt has been suspended due to the situation in Libya. In the same days, Türkiye allegedly detained 34 members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, “We have started a normalization process with Egypt. This is to be a mutual process. If Egypt is ...

Recent clashes between armed groups in the capital Tripoli have returned Libya back to international headlines, casting new doubts about the future of the country’s peace and stability. We spoke with Dr. Issa Tuwegiar, former Libyan Minister of Planning and private consultant in Tripoli about these clashes, persisting disagreements among different conflict parties and a possible way out. Clashes erupted ...