Recep Tayyip Erdoğan linked the improvement of relations with Egypt to the release of former President Mursī and the abolition of the sentences imposed to his followers. In a press statement, Erdoğan is reported to have said that Mursī should be released in quality of rightfully elected President. The contact between the two Countries deteriorated after the military coup d’état which deposed Mursī in July 2013. The Muslim Brotherhood has close ties with the Turkish Justice and Development Party founded by Erdoğan himself.

 (8 April, al-Jazīra, No Author)

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