The normalization of Ankara-Cairo relations and the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood living in Türkiye

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, these days once again witness new developments in We are in the field of Turkey’s foreign policy, and one of the signs of the beginning of a new era is the significant actions of the Erdogan government regarding the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The story is that after the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Cairo, Egypt, the Turkish citizenship of one of the leaders of the Brotherhood has been revoked. According to the media, the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey took measures to revoke Mahmoud Hossein’s Turkish citizenship on Erdogan’s orders.

This is despite the fact that earlier, on Erdogan’s own order, this politician was given to the Egyptian Brotherhood. He was given a birth certificate and Turkish citizenship, and a luxurious office in Istanbul was available to him.

Analytical news site T24 of Turkey, which belongs to Erdogan’s opponents, in a sarcastic article entitled “My Brother Sisi”, introduced Erdogan as a profit-seeking and unpredictable politician and wrote: “So far Last month, Erdoğan constantly claimed to be the defender of my brother Morsi and threatened the dictator and coup plotter Sisi as the cause of his death. But now we have reached the phase of friendship with Sisi, and during his trip to Cairo, he used the phrase “my brother Sisi” many times.

From the dispute between Istanbul and London to the agreement between Erdogan and Sisi Those close to Ahmet Davutoglu and Abdullah Gul wrote: “Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Egypt after 12 years. Some commentators have published comments that show that Erdogan’s decision to revoke the Turkish citizenship of the Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood was in line with Sisi’s wishes. Although Erdogan’s visit has the potential to open a new chapter in relations between the two countries, clearly, concerns and uncertainties about the status of members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Egyptian dissidents are increasing. It is not clear whether they will be able to travel to Turkey from now on.”

Barar newspaper also pointed out that Erdogan’s team closely monitored the internal disputes of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and practically put the Istanbul group against the London group.

Following the differences after Since the coup, the conflicts within the Brotherhood gained new dimensions with the death of Ibrahim Munir. The disagreement between the Istanbul and London fronts regarding the authority of the General Secretary increased the internal conflicts of the movement. Now another variable factor called the effect of the Erdoğan-Sisi agreement has been found, and this issue may affect the fate of the Brotherhood.

Islamist Saadat has also criticized this behavior of Erdogan. This newspaper, which belongs to the old students of the late Najmuddin Arbakan, considered the cancellation of Mahmoud Hossein’s citizenship as a shameful act and expressed his impression of this decision.

This newspaper said that Mahmoud Hossein Ahmed Hassan, the secretary general of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement, is a religious figure and a political fighter, and it is a shame that Turkey stopped supporting such people at Sisi’s request. , criticized the policies of Erdogan’s government and wrote: “Our teacher, the late Najmuddin Arbakan, never accepted the Zionists as a government and never used the expression of the state of Israel. But now our country has an official and diplomatic relationship with the Zionists”.

In the continuation of this report, Lotfi Yalman, one of Erbakan’s old students, wrote: The Qur’an paid attention and announced that brotherhood and empathy in the Islamic world are vitally important for us. Are others going too?

One of the important questions regarding the future relationship between Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood is what will happen to other Brotherhood politicians living in Turkey. Currently, there are no statistics on the presence of foreign Brotherhood politicians in Turkey.

For example, Khalid Khoja, the former head of the Syrian opposition who studied in Turkey, is one of the politicians that the Erdogan government invested in. did. But in addition to Khojay Turkmen and the Syrian Brotherhood, hundreds of politicians from Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other countries have lived in Turkey in the past years, and now it is not clear what they will do.

At the beginning of 2023, several political and media figures of the Egyptian Brotherhood, at the request of the Erdogan government, ended their activities against the government of Abdel Fattah Sisi, and some of them also left Turkey.

Now it is predicted that other groups of brotherhoods of the African continent will gradually leave Turkey. The evidence shows that the process of normalizing Turkey’s relations with the Zionist regime, as well as Turkey’s relations with the Egyptian government, will affect the possibility of the Brotherhood’s activity in Turkey.

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