Hommam Al Nassim 
Turkish Chief of Staff Metin Görak and his Egyptian counterpart Osama Askar discussed in their meeting in Ankara the issue of defense cooperation between the two countries and the establishment of weapons factories in Egypt.
Advisor to the head of the Turkish Justice and Development Party, Yassin Aktay, said after the meeting: “Both parties, Egypt and Turkey, lost from the severance of relations, and now they began to notice this matter after the meeting of Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in which relations were established at all levels, whether trade or the defense sector.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said last week that “cooperation between Turkey and Egypt is of great benefit to their peoples and the entire region.”
Fidan said, in a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, that “the Egyptian president’s visit to Turkey was on the agenda,” noting that “trade and economy constitute one of the strongest topics of Turkish cooperation with Egypt.”
Shoukry said that “mutual meetings and visits are intensifying with Turkey to develop relations and joint work,” stressing the quest with Turkey to upgrade political, economic, cultural and security relations in the common interest of both countries.
In March, Egypt announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to lay the foundation stone for the establishment of a Turkish industrial logistics zone in Marsa Matrouh in the northwest of the country, where the project will inject direct investments of more than $ 7 billion in all its phases and provide more than 20,000 jobs.
Relations between Egypt and Turkey soured after Sisi came to the presidency in 2013, following the ouster of the late President Mohamed Morsi, of whom Ankara was a prominent supporter.
Relations between Turkey and Egypt were restored after Sisi shook hands with Erdogan during the soccer World Cup in Qatar last year, a handshake that came after two full years of negotiations, which began with the dispatch of a Turkish delegation to Egypt, followed by an Egyptian delegation to Turkey.
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