An impressive scene was set yesterday by Erdogan for the reception in Ankara of its president Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. The Turkish president himself went to welcome the Egyptian leader at the airport, something he has done for few leaders, the SKAI correspondent in Istanbul commented, Manolis Kostidis.

It was a visit that helps restore relations between the two countries that had reached a nadir since 2013, when Erdogan called al-Sisi a “dictator” and a “tyrant.”

We discussed the Eastern Mediterranean, we have the concept of “Kazan – Kazan (win – win), said Erdogan

“With our joint declaration, we reaffirmed our will to advance our cooperation in all areas, including industry, trade, defense, health, environment and energy. During our consultations, in addition to Gaza, we also discussed regional issues, in particular the Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, Libya, Sudan and the Horn of Africa. We are determined to strengthen our consultations with Egypt, with whom we share similar positions and goals on many issues. God willing, from now on we will be in closer cooperation. With the concept of Kazan-Kazan (win-win) we will move our multidimensional relations forward” said the Turkish president.

Sisi’s message to Erdogan: “Foreign troops to leave Libya” – “Dear brother Recep Tayyip Erdogan”

“On the issue of Libya, we stated the importance for Libya of both the presidential and parliamentary elections as well as ensuring security there and the withdrawal of the armed forces from the country. Finally, I would like to thank my esteemed brother Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the hospitality he showed me and my delegation,” said Al-Sisi.

Academic Kaya Guler reported: “The middle line of the Egypt-Greece agreement lies somewhere at this point. According to this logic, this entire point remains in Greece and this here in the Greek Cypriot administration (Republic of Cyprus). We explained to Egypt and in 2023 and 2024, if it becomes part of the agreement we have made with Libya, and we told them ‘all this blue area will become yours, and here we are referring to an area of ​​41,000 sq.km. There are natural gas deposits here, we can make the area a natural gas center. Without anyone interfering, we can supply gas with a gas pipeline through Cyprus and Turkey. Egypt realized this. Of course, Gaza was also an important topic of discussion today. Look, we have all the maps, here Egypt will gain 15,000 sq.km, here 11,500 sq.km and there is another area that will belong to Egypt”.

Turkish opposition: “Application to the BRICS group is a ticking time bomb for our foreign policy”

Namik Tan, foreign policy chief of the Republican People’s Party: “The result of buying the S-400 was to block Turkey from the F-35 program, the result of starting with a slogan called ‘Blue Homeland’ is that the US leaves the Turkey-Greece balance within NATO and Greece, Israel, Egypt, Cyprus and maybe even France facing us. Just imagine what a ticking time bomb the application for BRICS membership will be in terms of our foreign and national security policies. You can’t ride two horses at once. You can’t ride on a tiger’s back forever. No wind does any good to a sailing ship that does not know its port of destination.’