Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will receive his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Ankara tomorrow, Wednesday, a special visit aimed at sealing the reconciliation between the two countries, the Turkish presidency announced today.

The visit is being made “in response” to Erdogan’s mid-February visit to Egypt, the presidency said in a statement.

The two leaders had moved to open a “new page” in relations between Ankara and Cairo, which were abruptly severed after Sisi came to power in 2013.

Sisi’s ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, who was from the Muslim Brotherhood and a major ally of Turkey, then caused President Erdogan to vow he would “never” speak to “someone like” Sissy.

However, relations between the two men have improved for nearly two years, with their interests now converging on several regional issues, such as the war in Gaza.

In mid-February in Cairo, Sisi and Erdogan signed several agreements and called for increased trade and diplomatic cooperation in the Middle East and Africa.

Trade exchanges between the two countries have never stopped during this decade of separation: Ankara is Egypt’s fifth trading partner and Cairo is Turkey’s first economic partner in Africa.