The Egyptian foreign ministry has slammed recent comments by Turkey’s FM about Egypt being “fragile” under President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's leadership, saying that such statements “reflect the psychological state” of Turkish officials since Egypt’s 30 June revolution of 2013.
Egypt's foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid told MENA that Turkish officials should look after their political positions in their own country, whose relations with the rest of the world are suffering from "isolation" and "hollow slogans."
Turkish FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said during a visit to Abu Dhabi on Wednesday that the Arab world, Africa and Palestine needed Egypt to be a strong force in the region, and that the county is “in a very fragile state under President El-Sisi's administration.”
Relations between Egypt and Turkey have been tense since the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, an ally of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in July 2013.
The Turkish president has repeatedly called for Morsi's release from detention.
Morsi is currently standing trial in four separate cases.
