Erdogan to Visit Egypt to Reboot Ties After Decade-Long Friction
Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Qatar in 2022.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Egypt next month in a bid to restore ties after more than a decade of fractured relations, according to Turkish officials familiar with the matter.
Erdogan is expected to travel to the North African nation on Feb. 14, the people said, seeking to boost cooperation in the energy-rich eastern Mediterranean as conflicts roil the Middle East. The trip will be his first to Egypt since before the 2013 ouster of an Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, who’d been favored by Ankara.