Turkey prime minister says wants to repair country’s ties with Egypt

ISTANBUL: Turkey wants to repair its ties with Egypt, after relations soured over the ouster of Islamist president Mohammad Morsi in 2013, Prime Minister Binali

Published on: Aug 21, 2016, 06:34:12 IST

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ISTANBUL: Turkey wants to repair its ties with Egypt, after relations soured over the ouster of Islamist president Mohammad Morsi in 2013, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday. Relations between Ankara and Cairo took a nosedive after the Egyptian military deposed Morsi in 2013. Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, had been a close ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party-led government. Erdogan repeatedly condemned the ouster as a “coup d’etat” against Morsi, and in a show of solidarity he has often flashed the four-finger “Rabaa” hand salute seen as a symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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