Paraphrasing 18th century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, Winston Churchill said after World War Two, “We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.” That is what drives realpolitik, or pragmatism in international relations. Turkiye and Egypt are a good example. A lot of their mutual tension over the past eleven years since the coup which brought Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to power has been dissipated recently, because it is in their mutual interests to do so. They have never broken relations, but they have been affected. Nevertheless, trade continued between the two, and actually increased in volume. Turkiye owns seventy factories in the large industrial zone in 6th of October City in Egypt, in addition to many private […]
