Sunday, November 24, 2013

Egypt asks Turkish ambassador to leave over support for Muslim Brotherhood



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".

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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).
Ed Griffin’s interview with 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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