Erdogan-Sisi handshake sparks backlash from Turkey's Islamists
President Erdogan’s about-face on Egypt sparked backlash from some Turkish Islamists ahead of critical June elections.
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President Erdogan’s about-face on Egypt sparked backlash from some Turkish Islamists ahead of critical June elections.
The end of Turkey’s ‘precious loneliness’ may be on the horizon Sinem Cengiz Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin. (Getty Images) Short Url https://arab.news/zq6k4 In 2013, Ibrahim Kalin, who was chief foreign policy adviser to then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the time and is today’s presidential spokesperson, introduced the term “precious loneliness” to international relations literature in a bid to justify the state of Turkey’s Middle East policy, which was very much criticized in those days. In a tweet, he said: “The claim of Turkey’s loneliness in the ...