With Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan making his long-awaited visit to Cairo on February 14, it has become clear that a new era in Turkish-Egyptian relations has already begun. The two countries re-exchanged ambassadors in July last year after a decade-long crisis.

Erdogan’s visit gained great importance, not only because it was his first to Egypt since the outbreak of the crisis, but because it practically launched the leaders’ diplomacy with Sisi, which caused a political rift.