Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will visit Turkey and meet with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan next week, Bloomberg reported.
Turkish officials said the visits aim to strengthen ties and to discuss the war in Gaza.
El-Sisi is set to pay his first visit as president to Turkey on September 4, as the two Middle Eastern powers also work to boost energy and trade relations, according to people familiar with the matter.
The visit will come around six months after Erdogan visited Cairo for the first time in over a decade.
The outreach underlines Turkey’s efforts to improve ties with Arab states and get investment from the likes of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Egypt and Turkey are working to increase bilateral trade to $15 billion annually in the next five years from around $6 billion. They are exploring ways to cooperate in the fields of liquefied natural gas — of which Egypt is a producer — and nuclear energy, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during a visit to Cairo on August 5.
The two nations are also seeking to expand an existing free trade agreement and restart freight shipping between the Turkish port of Mersin and Alexandria in Egypt, Fidan said.
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