Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Soner Cagaptay and Marc Sievers | Turkey and Egypt's Great Game In the Middle East | Foreign Affairs

Soner Cagaptay and Marc Sievers | Turkey and Egypt's Great Game In the Middle East | Foreign Affairs: Great piece by Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute. Lets all root for el-Sisi against the Islamist-lite and paranoid anti-Semite, Erdogan.

"The chaos in the Middle East has tested many relationships, not least the one between Egypt and Turkey. Shortly after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Turkey became one of Egypt’s chief regional supporters. When the new president, Mohammad Morsi, was himself pushed out of office in 2013, Turkey shifted course. With General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in power in Egypt, Turkey quickly became one of the country’s main adversaries in the Levant..."



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