After years of tension.. Restore full diplomatic ties between Egypt and Turkey

Egypt and Turkey may restore full diplomatic ties and re-appoint ambassadors mutually “in coming months”.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday: ” Ankara and Cairo may re-start diplomatic consultations led by deputy foreign ministers as part of a normalization process “soon”.

Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara, after years of tension, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan shook hands with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Qatar this month in what was described by the Egyptian presidency as a new start in bilateral relations.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says in this regard: "there is no room for hard feelings in politics" and that Turkey’s normalization process with Egypt will continue at the ministerial level.

Erdogan Referring to his recent meeting with the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Qatar, said ": Sisi is  very happy" with this meeting and we also conveyed the same wish.”

Also, he said that "hopefully” the normalization process with Egypt will continue at the ministerial level.

Erdogan said “Recently, we experienced a problem in a 9-year period, We took this step that evening, especially with the intervention of Qatar’s emir, After overcoming that difficulty, we had a narrow-scoped meeting with El Sisi for half an hour or 45 minutes”.

Erdogan said about Detailing the two leaders' meeting in Qatar: "Now let our lower-level ministers start the talks, and then let us expand and develop our talks, all we care about is to remove this resentment between Egypt and Turkey, there should not be such a problem between Turkey and Egypt in the Mediterranean."

Erdogan add “Now that the process has begun, a process will continue with our ministers. And then to come together in the Mediterranean, because the connections between the Egyptian people and Turkey are very different, we should not lose this power to others”.