Turkey's FM to visit Egypt as Erdogan mends relations with Sisi
The visit will be the first of its kind in more than a decade, following diplomatic deep freeze between the two East-Med countries.
ANKARA — Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is set to travel to Egypt over the weekend, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Friday, in first such diplomatic trip since 2012.
Cavusoglu will pay the country an official visit on Saturday, the ministry’s statement read, adding that he and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry were expected to discuss bilateral, regional and international files. In a separate statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said the meeting would be held in Cairo.
The visit will follow Shoukry’s solidarity visit to Turkey late last month after the killer earthquakes on Feb. 6, the first since 2016.
Ankara has been trying to mend fences with Cairo as part of its regional diplomacy push aiming at restoring the country’s ties with former regional rivals, namely Saudi Arabia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
