Egypt asks Turkish ambassador to leave over support for Muslim
Brotherhood
Military government accuses Turkey of
seeking to create instability by backing party of ousted president Mohamed Morsi
The Egyptian government has asked Turkey's
ambassador to leave in protest for its support of the Muslim Brotherhood, the
party of the deposed president Mohamed Morsi.
Egypt's military government accused Turkey
of supporting organisations bent on spreading instability. Turkey has
denounced removal of the elected Morsi as an "unacceptable coup".
Since the coup in July, thousands
of the new government's opponents have been detained and hundreds killed by
security forces.
Turkey was "attempting to influence public opinion against
Egyptian interests, supported meetings of organisations that seek to create
instability in the country," said a foreign ministry spokesman, Badr
Abdelatty, on Saturday.
Turkey's ruling AK party has a similar background to the Muslim
Brotherhood and both have endured a rivalry with their national armies.
Turkey and Egypt
recalled their ambassadors in August after Turkey
criticised Egypt's
new leaders over the overthrow of Morsi. Turkey's
ambassador returned weeks later, but Egypt
had declined to return its envoy to Ankara.
Saturday's decision comes after
the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, renewed his criticism of Egypt's new
leaders. He dismissed the trial of Morsi on charges of inciting murder of his
opponents while in office, which opened this month, and on Thursday described
the situation in Egypt
as a "humanitarian drama".
The Egyptian foreign ministry said
Turkey "has persisted in its unacceptable and unjustified positions by
trying to turn the international community against Egyptian interests and by
supporting meetings for groups that seek to create instability in the country
and by making statements that can only be described as an offense to the
popular will".
Egyptian officials and media have
repeatedly accused Muslim Brotherhood leaders of meeting in Turkey to plan protests and other ways to
undermine the new government in Cairo.
In response to Egypt's
decision, the Turkish president, Abdullah Gul, said: "I hope our relations
will again get back to its track."
But a Turkish foreign ministry
spokesman said Ankara
was in touch with the ambassador "and we will respond with reciprocal
steps in coming hours".
Turkey
Eric S. Edelman
was a U.S. ambassador for Turkey,
and is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Note: Marc Grossman was
a U.S. ambassador for Turkey,
and a director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, and the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and Refugees
International.
Morton I.
Abramowitz is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a U.S. ambassador for Turkey.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a board
member for the International Crisis
Group, a director at the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of
Bilderberg (think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
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Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Frank
G. Wisner is a director emeritus for Refugees
International, and was a U.S.
ambassador for Egypt.
Mohamed
Morsi was the president of Egypt,
and is the leader of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
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