Rabia sign

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blasted main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over his criticism of Erdoğan's use of the "Rabia" four-finger hand gesture, which has become popular among Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers around the world. 

An Egyptian criminal court on April 21 sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to be issued against the country's first freely elected leader.
                   

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again declared his refusal to recognize the “legitimacy” of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, also reproaching those countries that have so far accepted al-Sisi as a legitimate leader.