Turkey and Egypt appoint their respective ambassadors in the framework of their process of normalization of relations

July 4 () –

The governments of Turkey and Egypt have announced this Tuesday that they will raise their relations to the level of embassies and have appointed the representatives of said diplomatic missions, in the midst of a bilateral rapprochement, after ties were lowered in 2013 to the level of those in charge of business.

“Turkey and Egypt announce that diplomatic relations between the two countries have been elevated to the level of embassies,” the Turkish and Egyptian Foreign Ministries have indicated through separate statements published on their website and their Facebook social network account, respectively. .

Thus, they have maintained that “the improvement of diplomatic relations between the two countries has been carried out in line with the decision adopted by the presidents of both countries”, before defending that they seek to “achieve the normalization of relations”.

In this sense, they have abounded that the decision will help “develop bilateral relations, in line with the interests of the Turkish and Egyptian peoples.” Finally, they have specified that Salih Mutlu Sen will be the new Turkish ambassador in Cairo, while Amr el Hamami will be the Egyptian ambassador in Ankara.

Both governments agreed at the end of May to reappoint their respective ambassadors, in a new sign of a thaw in relations broken in 2013 after the overthrow of the government of Egyptian Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in a military coup led by the now president of Egypt, Abdelfatá al Sisi.

Ankara and Cairo have spent the last two years trying to normalize their relations, especially in the commercial field; Efforts that came to fruition in November of last year in front of the public, during the inauguration of the last Soccer World Cup in Qatar, with a personal greeting between Al Sisi and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan had accused Al Sisi ten years earlier of staging a coup “against democracy” by leading the coup against Mursi and outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most important Islamist organizations in the world and linked to the ousted president, who died in prison in June 2019.