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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Egypt and Turkey’s nascent alliance tested by new crisis in Libya

Sisi and Erdoğan hold folders with the symbols of each other's countries on them.
The Egyptian president, Abdul Fatah al-Sisi (left), and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during their meeting in Ankara on 4 September. Photograph: Necati Savaş/EPA

A new alliance between Egypt and Turkey designed to end a long-running dispute over events in the Middle East faces it first major test in the shape of a worsening political crisis in Libya linked to control of its oil wealth.

Egypt and Turkey fell out in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab spring, primarily because of the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s coup against his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi, an ally of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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