Beblawi Cabinet

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has warned that regional challenges could lead to "unbearable" economic pressure on the population and a review of internationally-demanded economic reforms.

Steven Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Thanos Davelis to look at the visit of Egypt's President al-Sisi to Turkey, explore whether we are seeing relations between Turkey and Egypt turn a new page, and break down what this means for the region.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited Ankara on Sept. 4 for a landmark meeting with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, marking a significant step toward mending ties.

Erdoğan personally welcomed al-Sisi at Esenboğa Airport in the capital Ankara, and the two leaders traveled together to the presidential complex.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will hold talks with President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Wednesday in the first presidential level visit in 12 years amid a warming of long-frozen relations between the regional powers.

Türkiye and Egypt will hold a high-level strategic council meeting under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to crown what they call the normalization process between the two countries through economic agreements.

Türkiye will participate in the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Aug. 7, joining the proceedings initiated by South Africa, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has announced.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced he would be paying a two-day visit to Egypt on Saturday and Sunday for bilateral talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, noting that a FTA with Egypt was extremely important.

In a public address, Vucic said that, after the visit to Egypt, he would travel to London for a July 17-18 European Political Community meeting.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt on Monday at the start of a regional tour to push for a much awaited Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Blinken is expected to hold closed-door talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo before heading to Jerusalem later on Monday to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday evening Serbia would soon sign a FTA with Egypt and announced that he would meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a month or a month and a half and that he also expected to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in about a month.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for a peace conference on the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas as he addressed Arab leaders and diplomats at a forum in Beijing.

China is this week hosting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and several other Arab leaders for a forum at which discussions on the war in Gaza were expected.