“Positive” normalization talks between Turkey and Egypt took place in May. This is bad news, considering Egypt’s troubled history with the Muslim Brotherhood and its subsequent outlawing of the group; Turkey is a backer of the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, Qatar and Turkey have been bankrolling Muslim Brotherhood networks across Europe, including the Muslim Council of Britain.
Ever since the “Arab Spring” in 2011, “Turkey, which backed groups close to the Muslim Brotherhood, saw its chance to seize a leading role in the region and pressed Arab regimes to reform in the face of popular protest. Instead, many of those it supported suffered setbacks and Ankara found itself isolated.” But not anymore. Turkey, under its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is indulging aspirations of a revived Ottoman Empire, and is again positioning itself for a lead role in the region and beyond.
The world is changing rapidly as the Muslim ummah comes together in the absence of a once-strong America, ever since Biden took over. Gonul Tol, director of the Middle East Institute’s Centre for Turkish Studies stated…
Now they think, “OK, we live in a region where the US is not going to be present and the security-orientated approach didn’t produce the results we wanted.”
With America increasingly reduced to a global joke because of the Biden administration, the resulting void is being filled up fast by unsavory entities including China, Turkey and Iran.
“Turkey realigning ties with Egypt and Gulf rivals,” by Andy Wills, Al Jazeera, September 6, 2021:
Istanbul, Turkey – Turkish and Egyptian officials will gather around a table on Tuesday amid a thaw in relations between Turkey and its Arab neighbours after nearly a decade of mutual distrust and often outright hostility.
The Ankara meeting at the deputy foreign minister level is the second round of Turkey-Egypt talks following May’s Cairo summit, which had been the first direct high-level discussions between the countries since 2013.
The contact is the latest between Turkey and the Arab states it fell out with in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, which saw anti-government movements across the Middle East and North Africa unseat a number of longtime rulers and threaten others.
Turkey, which backed groups close to the Muslim Brotherhood, saw its chance to seize a leading role in the region and pressed Arab regimes to reform in the face of popular protest.
Instead, many of those it supported suffered setbacks and Ankara found itself isolated.
In Egypt, a wedge was driven between the two countries in 2013 when military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi deposed President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader and Turkish ally.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates also emerged as strong rivals to Turkey as both saw the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat to their ruling dynasties….
Wellington says
The principal reason for this? Biden the weakling of course who only poses a threat, through various federal agencies, to conservative Americans.
The rest of the world need not fear Biden. No reason to.
But America and its President should be feared by the bad guys of the world. Ain’t happening now, that’s for sure. What a monumental disgrace Biden is. Ditto for all those who still back this POS.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
100% spot on.
Rumor has it that there is a small – but slowly growing – percent of former Biden supporters who are desperately trying to remove (albeit stealthily) Biden/Harris 2020 bumper stickers from their cars.
gravenimage says
Turkey realigning ties with Egypt ‘in a region where the US is not going to be present’
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More emboldening from the weakness of Biden.
Mano says
It’s about Turkey getting rid of Greece in the EEZ Mediterranean gas deals
born saturday says
https://nordicmonitor.com/
D Cripps says
It seems, perhaps confusingly, that it is the Muslim Association of Britain, and not the Muslim Council of Britain, that has Muslim Brotherhood backing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Islamic_Organizations_in_Europe.