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By Micah Halpern
Egypt and Turkey took another step towards mending relations when Ankara's top diplomat visited Cairo for the first time since ties were ruptured a decade ago and held talks with his Egyptian counterpart. Relations between the countries were severely strained in 2013. That was when Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's then-army chief, led the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi, an ally of Ankara. Since 2021, tension between the two countries has gradually thawed. At a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said talks with Turkey on the possibility of restoring ties to ambassadorial level would happen at "the appropriate time". He termed the talks "honest, deep and transparent".
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