The key facts

  • Hakan Fidan and Badr Abdelatty held phone talks on Saturday
  • They discussed developments in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean
  • The content of the conversation and any agreements have not been officially disclosed

Phone talks between Ankara and Cairo

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held a phone conversation on Saturday with Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Turkish diplomatic sources told the Anadolu agency. The main topics of the conversation were developments in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean — two regions where the interests of Ankara and Cairo traditionally overlap and where both countries have been building coordination in recent years.

What is known and what is not yet

The sources limited themselves to listing the topics of the conversation: no details of the parties' positions, final agreements, or statements about further steps were provided. Thus, for now it is only possible to speak of the very fact of contact at the level of the heads of the foreign ministries and the stated agenda; the substance of the discussion remains unknown pending official statements from the ministries or subsequent publications.