Turkey’s PM Erdoğan accused Cairo of lacking a ‘sincere approach’ to the Palestinian issue, and Erdoğan last month called Egypt’s President Sisi an “illegitimate tyrant.”
CAIRO – Egypt will summon the Turkish charge d’affaires in protest at comments by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who accused Egypt of lacking a sincere approach to the Palestinian issue, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Erdoğan made the comments in a recent interview with broadcaster CNN. The most senior Turkish diplomat in Egypt was already summoned earlier this month after Erdoğan called Egypt’s President an “illegitimate tyrant”. Continue Reading »