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| The Grand Turk |
| Egypt again Warns Turkey to Stop Criticizing Sisi |
| 2014-07-27 |
| [An Nahar] Egypt warned Ankara Saturday of "further action" as it protested for the second time in a week at the Turkish premier criticizing its president and Cairo's handling of the Gazoo conflict. Ties have been strained since both withdrew their ambassadors last year after the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, who had forged closer ties with Turkey's devout Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... . The foreign ministry said it was summoning the Turkish charge d'affaires -- for the second time within a week -- to protest against Erdogan's criticism in the media on Thursday of President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and Cairo's stance on the conflict in the Gazoo Strip. Ministry front man Badr Abdelatty told Agence La Belle France Presse that the protest comes after Erdogan in an interview with U.S. television channel CNN "repeated again that Sisi was a tyrant and that Egypt has no role" in resolving the Gazoo crisis. Erdogan also denounced Sisi on July 18 as an "illegitimate tyrant", saying that Cairo could not be relied upon to negotiate a truce in Gazoo. Saturday's ministry statement said Erdogan's remarks show "the total ignorance and dismissal of the political reality in Egypt since the June 30 revolution". Millions of Egyptians had taken to the streets on June 30 last year demanding the resignation of Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president. Sisi ousted Morsi on the back of these protests. "The Turkish leadership has repeatedly interfered in the internal affairs of the country, which is totally unacceptable," the ministry said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 g(r)om, that's a very sneaky/snarky observation. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-07-27 09:03 |
| #1 Too bad Turkey & Egypt don't have a common border. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-27 01:10 |