Mavi Boncuk |
Foreign Affairs | March 8, 2015
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Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute.
Marc Sievers, the Institute's Diplomat-in-Residence, previously served as U.S. deputy chief of mission and charge d’affaires in Cairo. The views in this article are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. government.
This article originally appeared on the Foreign Affairs website (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143231/soner-cagaptay-and-marc-sievers/turkey-and-egypts-great-game-in-the-middle-east).
Local and regional developments over the past two years suggest that Turkey and Egypt's contentious relationship is unlikely to improve so long as Erdogan and Sisi are in power.
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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Turkey and Egypt's Great Game in the Middle East
By Soner Cagaptay and Marc SieversForeign Affairs | March 8, 2015
View this item on our website: http://washin.st/1xaQ2u2
Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute.
Marc Sievers, the Institute's Diplomat-in-Residence, previously served as U.S. deputy chief of mission and charge d’affaires in Cairo. The views in this article are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. government.
This article originally appeared on the Foreign Affairs website (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143231/soner-cagaptay-and-marc-sievers/turkey-and-egypts-great-game-in-the-middle-east).
Local and regional developments over the past two years suggest that Turkey and Egypt's contentious relationship is unlikely to improve so long as Erdogan and Sisi are in power.
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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