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 conservative-nationalist base.

According to the Egyptian and international media, the talks focused on the conflict in Libya where Egypt and Turkey back opposing sides, the energy rivalry in the Eastern Mediterranean and Ankara’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood, which Cairo has designated a terrorist organization.