Sunni Islam in Egypt

Egypt and Turkey have appointed ambassadors to each other's capitals for the first time in a decade to restore normal diplomatic relations, their foreign ministries announced on Tuesday.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was in Cairo on Saturday for the first time since ties were ruptured a decade ago to push to restore full diplomatic relations between the two countries.

A cluster of police suicides in Turkey last month highlights a crumbling brotherhood and lack of organizational support

The spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said that if the United States designates the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, it will hamper democratization efforts in the Middle East and serve militant groups like ISIL.

An Egyptian court has postponed until July 28 the verdicts for hundreds of defendants detained for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in, including the top leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt recognized Kosovo only verbally - without any paper - in June 2013, three days before the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood.

This represents "a very weak recognition" that even the (Egyptian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs was opposed to, Belgrade-based daily Politika writes, citing a source from diplomatic circles.

Egypt has hanged four men convicted by a military court of killing three military students in a bombing in 2014, security sources said on Tuesday.

Top prosecutor Nabil Sadek ordered the detention of 29 suspects for 15 days for charges of espionage on behalf of Turkey, membership of a terrorist organization, money laundering, and illegal currency transactions on the black market.

Authorities on Crete have launched an investigation after leaflets with references to Allah and excerpts from the Koran were found strewn on the streets of Tympaki in the area of Messara.

Egypt's justice minister faced outrage on social media March 13 after a television interview in which he said he would arrest even "a prophet," although he later admitted it was a "slip of tongue."