Turkey aims to establish mutual understanding with Egypt

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Turkey and Egypt should come together to understand each other instead of having a battle of words.
Davutoğlu underlined that Egypt is the “backbone” of stability in the region. “If Egypt is strong, stability in the region will be strong too. If Egypt has a problem, it will affect the region too,” Davutoğlu said on late Wednesday while addressing a group of opinion leaders from Arabic countries in Davos.
Since the removal of Egypt’s first elected leader — former President Mohammed Morsi — from power in June of 2013 by former military head Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been one of the strongest critics of the new regime, saying it has no legitimacy.
Davutoğlu is visiting Sweden on Jan. 21-23 to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), becoming the first Turkish prime minister to attend the gathering since his predecessor, Erdoğan, in 2009.
Davutoğlu is expected to meet several world leaders on the sidelines of the WEF meeting.
Erdoğan’s attendance was marked by him storming out of a session after a heated exchange with Shimon Peres, who was the president of Israel at the time, over Israeli actions in Gaza. As he walked out, Erdoğan promised to never return to Davos for the WEF gathering again.