‘Better together’: Presidents of Egypt, Turkey seek common ground in Ankara
Al Jazeera
The past few years have seen a warming of relations between the two countries, cemented by high-level visits.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has concluded his first visit to Turkey since he took office in 2014, in what constitutes the next step in mending the ties between the two countries after his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first visit to Egypt since 2014 in February.
The two presidents also headed the first meeting of the Egyptian-Turkish Strategic Cooperation Council on Wednesday.
In a 36-point declaration, the council outlined the fields in which the two countries intend to cooperate, one year before the centenary of diplomatic relations between them.
Among them was an undertaking to “promote economic and trade relations … to increase their trade volume” to $15bn, a tripling of the current annual trade volume.
In a joint news conference after the visit, Erdogan and el-Sisi expressed their intention to deepen relations and cooperation on a number of regional political issues.
