Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed to Arab ministers on Wednesday the need to follow a "unified and strong Arab stance" against the "destructive" activities of Turkey.
In a speech on Turkish interventions in Arab states during the hosted ministerial committee of the Arab League, Shoukry said the "flagrant Turkish interventions and practises in several Arab states represent the most emerging threats to Arab national security."
Shoukry reviewed Turkey's "blatant practices" in several Arab states which are causing societal and sectarian pisions in the region.
He shed light on evidence reflecting the size of Turkish interventions in Arab nations, including facilitating the crossover of tens of thousands of terrorists and mercenaries to Syria and dispatching thousands of fighters to Libya.
Shoukry highlighted rejection of the Turkish encroachment on resources in Iraq as well as Ankara's signing of an "illegitimate memoranda of understanding" with the government in Tripoli.
Egypt has repeatedly stressed its rejection of Turkey’s political and military interference in Arab affairs, describing them as "expansionist" and “lacking any legitimate basis.”
Tensions between the two countries escalated in the past months over Ankara's military intervention in war-torn Libya, its violation of Iraq's sovereignty, as well as Ankara's hunt for gas in the eastern Mediterranean in violation of the territorial waters of Greece and Cyprus, two close allies of Egypt.
Egypt has had strained relations with Turkey since the 2013 ouster of Egypt’s late Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, a close ally of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Cairo has repeatedly condemned Ankara's support for the terrorist-designated Muslim Brotherhood.
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