Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held talks with his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Saturday, in the first such visit after a decade of ruptured ties.
Cavusoglu and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry were expected to discuss a range of bilateral and international issues in a step towards restoring normal relations,Ties between Turkey and Egypt were severely strained after Egypt's then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi led the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi, an ally of Ankara, in 2013. Sisi was elected president the following year.
Consultations between senior foreign ministry officials in Ankara and Cairo began in 2021, amid a push by Turkey to ease tensions with Egypt, the UAE, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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