Egypt concerns about Turkish expansionist policies in Syria: Egyptian top diplomat
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – We are concerned about the policies that have been demonstrated by Turkey over the last ten years that seems to be leading towards expansionist and military intervention in Syria, Foreign Minister of Egypt, Sameh Shoukry, said yesterday.
Shoukry stressed that his country “sees no reason for the Turkish military presence neither in Libya, Syria, nor in Iraq.”
He showed Egypt’s concerns about Turkish expansionist policies in Syria during a war decade.
“We have been concerned about the grave efforts to intervene in Egyptian affairs through the support that has been lend to the Muslim Brotherhood which we designate as a terrorist organization,” Shoukry added in a symposium held by Wilson Research Center in USA.
He wondered about the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Turkey that established satellite stations to promote misinformation related to internal situation in Egypt.
On October 19, from Athena, the capital of Greece, the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, announced the adherence of Egypt, Greece and Cyprus to the unity of the Syrian territory and rejecting any attempts of demographic change.
El-Sisi stressed the refusal of the three countries’ leaders of any attempts by the “regional powers” to change the demography of the Syrian lands.