May 10, 2021
Turkey and Egypt held their first high-level meeting in eight years last week, but Ankara has shown no signs of backing down in Libya thus far, even as its normalization bid with Cairo depends largely on whether the two regional rivals find common ground in the Libyan conflict.
The May 5-6 talks in Cairo, chaired by the deputy foreign ministers of the two countries, took place relatively soon after Turkey began to publicly voice its overtures in March a signal that Egypt, too, is eager to break the ice in bilateral ties.
Turkey’s pro-government media were rather subdued in their coverage of the meeting, as if they struggled to change tune after years of vilifying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood government, a close ally of Ankara, in 2013. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Sisi a “putschist” and frequently blasted him in his speeches at home, nourishing a strong anti-Sisi sentiment in his conservat
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At this time last year, I wrote that Libya may become an arena for regional conflict if Turkey continued its military intervention there. But after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi drew a red line warning Turkey to back off, the potential for regional escalation declined and diplomatic and political efforts were quickly revived .Conflict exhausted domestic constituencies and others weary of expanded regional conflicts accepted a United Nations roadmap focused on building effective institutions for a new Libyan state. These are a positive and welcome developments, even if it’s too early to rest assured and presume a desirable outcome to the Libyan crisis is easily within grasp.
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2021-05-09 22:06:22 GMT2021-05-10 06:06:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Burak Akinci
ANKARA, May 9 (Xinhua) Turkey is deploying considerable diplomatic efforts to mend its frayed relations with Arab nations, a move aiming to break its isolation which has become detrimental to the nation s regional interests, experts said.
A high-level Turkish delegation held talks in Cairo last week with Egyptian officials, the first in several years, in a bid to repair their relationship fractured over their diverging policies on Libya and maritime borders in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Relations between the two regional powers have been tense since Egypt s army toppled the elected Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi, who was close to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in 2013.