The Neo Ottoman Empire and the restoration of the Egyptian power : a geo-political clash

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It has been observed that the Turkish foreign policy approach has reached its peak towards Egypt during the period February 2011 until June 2013.

At that stage, Turkey, under Erdogan, had attempted to support the process of empowering the Muslim Brotherhood organization in Egypt and support its efforts to monopolize the state and society according to the theocratic project adopted by the MB since its foundation in 1928.

At that point in history, Turkey's hegemony ambitions matched with the project of sectarian engineering for the Middle East sponsored by the administration of the former U.S President Barack Obama.

After the fall of this exceptional moment, the Turkish hostility towards Egypt took several aspects, which can be summarized as follows : -Sponsoring organized and systematic political and media criticism campaigns against Egypt and its political system, some of which are directed to Egypt’s internal society, and others to the international public opinion.

-Embracing the terrorist elements of the Muslim Brotherhood and give them the support to act against Egypt's interests and security.

-Cooperating with regional networks of the terrorist "ISIS" organization that places Egypt and its vital domain at the top of its regional goals in the Middle East.

-Building regional alliances in a severe hostility to Egypt and its regional role.

- Frequent attempts to penetrate into the vital field of Egypt, and threaten its interests and national security.

Since 2014, the Egyptian President announced more than once that the regional political principles in Egypt are based on supporting the national state and its institutions, at the forefront of which are the national armies, rejecting all sectarian projects, and any empowerment of the militias that defend them, in addition to fighting terrorism, which seeks to use fundamentalist and racist discourse to dismantle societies and drain countries.

Hence, Egyptian politics, in light of the existing Egyptian system, collided directly with Turkish ambitions and its dynamics in the region.

The paper attempts to analyze the various manifestations of the Turkish hostility policies toward Egypt, and discusses its potential implications, and the potential Egyptian response patterns against such policies.