Newspaper: Turkey backs off from promoting political Islam abroad

Political Islam Fewer successes in Turkey than President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might have wished, but the Arab Spring that rocked the Middle East in 2011 saw Turkey emerge as one of its main exporters.

The report concluded: "Besides Egypt, Turkey has supported Brotherhood parties and other Islamist groups in Libya andSyrian Arab Republic AndTunisiaErdogan and Ahmet Davutoglu, his then foreign minister, wanted to hasten the collapse of the old regional order and strengthen Turkey’s influence over the new one"as she put it.

He continued: Erdogan went in the opposite direction, in November, Erdogan met with Sisi for the first time, on the sidelines World Cup in QatarMonths of talks between diplomats, Turks and Egyptians paved the way for the meeting".

And the newspaper considered that Erdogan sought this by establishing good relations with the Gulf countries, and he also corrected the situation with IsraelIn addition to his talk about the possibility of meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Meeting with Sisi

When he met Sisi, Erdogan said that the handshake that took place between him and his Egyptian counterpart in Qatar was a first step towards further normalization of relations between the two countries.

Erdogan added that other moves will follow that first step in order to normalize relations between Cairo and Ankara.

The Turkish president added that he wanted the meetings with Egypt to be at a higher level, in the context of the trend towards normalizing relations.

Turkish-Syrian rapprochement

In recent months, the steps of rapprochement between Turkey and Syria have accelerated, after more than a decade of estrangement following the outbreak of the civil war in the latter in 2011, as Ankara took a supportive position for the Syrian opposition.

This progress comes under the auspices of Russia, which is urging Damascus to reconcile with Ankara.

Turkey wants two basic things:

  • The return of Syrian refugees to their lands.
  • Cooperation with Damascus to fight the Kurdish People’s Protection Units "SDF"thus preventing the establishment of a Kurdish entity.

In return, Syria wants the following:

  • Ending the presence of Turkish forces in the north of the country, which it describes as occupation.
  • Stop supplying the opposition factions with weapons.
  • Syria agrees with Turkey on containment "SDF".

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The newspaper added in its report, it has been investigated Political Islam Fewer successes in Turkey than President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might have wished, but the Arab Spring that rocked the Middle East in 2011 saw Turkey emerge as one of its main exporters.

The report continued: “Besides Egypt, Turkey has supported Brotherhood parties and other Islamist groups in Libya andSyrian Arab Republic AndTunisiaErdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu, his foreign minister at the time, wanted to hasten the collapse of the old regional order and strengthen Turkey’s influence over the new one,” she said.

He continued: Erdogan went in the opposite direction, in November, Erdogan met with Sisi for the first time, on the sidelines World Cup in QatarMonths of talks between diplomats, Turks and Egyptians paved the way for the meeting.

And the newspaper considered that Erdogan sought this by establishing good relations with the Gulf countries, and he also corrected the situation with IsraelIn addition to his talk about the possibility of meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Meeting with Sisi

When he met Sisi, Erdogan said that the handshake that took place between him and his Egyptian counterpart in Qatar was a first step towards further normalization of relations between the two countries.

Erdogan added that other moves will follow that first step in order to normalize relations between Cairo and Ankara.

The Turkish president added that he wanted the meetings with Egypt to be at a higher level, in the context of the trend towards normalizing relations.

Turkish-Syrian rapprochement

In recent months, the steps of rapprochement between Turkey and Syria have accelerated, after more than a decade of estrangement following the outbreak of the civil war in the latter in 2011, as Ankara took a supportive position for the Syrian opposition.

This progress comes under the auspices of Russia, which is urging Damascus to reconcile with Ankara.

Turkey wants two basic things:

  • The return of Syrian refugees to their lands.
  • Cooperate with Damascus to fight the Kurdish People’s Protection Units “SDF”, and thus prevent the establishment of a Kurdish entity.

In return, Syria wants the following:

  • Ending the presence of Turkish forces in the north of the country, which it describes as occupation.
  • Stop supplying the opposition factions with weapons.
  • Syria agrees with Turkey on containing the SDF.

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