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Egypt is seeing promising progress in relations with Turkey, with latest indicators pointing to constructive developments within the negotiations between the 2 international locations.
“There’s some progress in relations with Turkey that we hope to construct on,” Egypt’s Overseas Minister Sameh Shoukry stated in a phone interview throughout El-Hekaya TV present broadcast on MBC Masr on Oct. 1 and hosted by Egyptian discuss present host Amr Adib.
Shoukry’s statements are available in mild of two rounds of exploratory talks previously months between representatives of Egypt and Turkey as a part of efforts to fix ties between the 2 international locations.
In his TV interview, Shoukry stated the Sept. 7 meeting in Ankara centered on bilateral relations.
“[Cairo] is ready for passable options to resolve the excellent points with Ankara to be able to restore relations,” Shoukry continued, noting that insurance policies on the regional degree are being revised and the problem of normalizing relations has but to succeed in the subsequent step.
“We’ll monitor and consider the matter primarily based on the insurance policies pursued by the Turkish authorities, each in its bilateral relations with Egypt or inside the framework of its regional coverage,” he stated. “Communications are nonetheless continuing on the identical tempo as what occurred within the first and second rounds of [exploratory] talks.”
Egyptian and Turkish diplomats had met in Cairo in Might for a primary spherical of exploratory talks to debate bilateral and regional points. The second round of talks was held in Ankara on Sept. 7-8.
A joint statement launched after the second assembly stated, “The 2 sides agreed to proceed these consultations confirming their want to make progress in areas beneath dialogue and the necessity for additional steps to facilitate normalization of their relations.”
On Sept. 8, Shoukry stated in an interview with Bloomberg that his nation has been “desperate to discover a decision and to search out the required formulation for restoring normal relations” with Turkey.
Bashir Abdel-Fattah, a researcher specializing in Turkish affairs at Al-Ahram Heart for Political and Strategic Research, believes the latest enchancment in relations between Egypt and Turkey may witness a setback in mild of variations over regional, worldwide and inside Egyptian points.
He informed Al-Monitor {that a} answer to the Libyan disaster, nonetheless, could pace up the rapprochement and bridge the variations between the 2 international locations, because the situation in Libya is among the predominant excellent points within the Egyptian-Turkish ties.
In response to Abdel-Fattah, the Muslim Brotherhood’s rising affect in Libya is among the predominant points weighing on the Egyptian-Turkish relations. “Egypt is cautious of Turkey’s help to the Muslim Brotherhood, whether or not in Libya or by Ankara’s opposition to the Egyptian regime,” he defined.
Abdel-Fattah famous that the exploratory talks are a constructive indication that the rapprochement efforts between the 2 international locations are shifting in the best course, albeit slowly. “Saying the continuation of those rounds reveals hope on the horizon to attain rapprochement,” he stated.
Mohamed al-Orabi, former Egyptian overseas minister and member of the parliamentary Overseas Relations Committee, informed Al-Monitor that the Turkish aspect has repeatedly asserted its will to attain progress in mending relations with Egypt and sought to determine a constructive environment.
Commenting on the hurdles that might impede the rapprochement efforts, Orabi stated, “Ankara has a number of obligations to satisfy to be able to persuade Cairo of its good intentions earlier than elevating the extent of diplomatic illustration between the 2 international locations. However for Ankara, these obligations — that are primarily associated to points reminiscent of Muslim Brotherhood members needed for tials in Egypt, Turkey’s presence in Libya and different Center East delicate recordsdata — could possibly be tough to attain.”
Dalia Ziada, director of the Cairo-based suppose tank Liberal Democracy Institute, praised the constructive indicators surrounding the bilateral talks.
She informed Al-Monitor, “The present steps aimed toward attaining reconciliation between Egypt and Turkey ought to take into consideration the general state of affairs and newest developments within the Center East.”
Ziada argued that normalization of ties won’t solely be useful for Egypt and Turkey. “These two international locations maintain many playing cards that might preserve stability and safety within the area amid tensions, specifically these ensuing from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Contributing to regional stability is way extra necessary than [solving] any bilateral variations between the 2 international locations.”
On Sept. 14, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Growth Celebration (AKP) spokesman Omer Celik stated that relations between Turkey and Egypt have now entered a section of normalization.
Talking at a press conference held on the sidelines of a gathering of the Govt Committee on the AKP headquarters in Ankara within the presence of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Celik famous, “Now we have historic ties, friendship and tasks imposed on us by the Mediterranean that we share.”
He continued, “Egypt is among the most important partners of our nation. In 2020, our whole commerce quantity trade amounted to $4.85 billion.”
Celik additional pointed to the beginning of bilateral talks to debate the most recent developments in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Palestine and the jap Mediterranean.
