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Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of Morsi,” referring to the deceased former president of Egypt, and member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In an official statement, Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, said that Erdogan “claimed to defend the values of justice in his speech, but at the core showed feelings of hatred and spite toward Egypt and its people who have nothing but appreciation for the people of Turkey.”

Hafez added that it was “ironic” for Erdogan to make these allegations “in light of his sponsorship of terrorism in the region due to his regime’s flagrant violations against the friendly Turkish people where he tries to hold them hostage to a fake freedom and alleged justice.”

He went on to list ongoing human rights violations in Turkey under Erdogan’s leadership, including the thousands of political prisoners, the suspicious deaths of dozens of prisoners due to torture or inhuman prison conditions, and the closure of thousands of universities and educational institutions.

Erdogan had blamed Morsi’s death on current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, stating that “Sisi is a tyrant, not a democrat.”

“They didn’t make the slightest intervention as the country’s first democratically elected president suffered for more than 20 minutes. They didn’t deliver his remains to his family or let him be buried in his hometown per his will,” Erdogan said on Sunday during a gathering in New York with heads of Muslim organizations in the US.

The gathering was sponsored by the Turkish American National Steering Committee (TASC), whose co-chairperson is Erdogan’s cousin. In 2016, TASC officials were questioned by US authorities on suspicion of involvement in political espionage on behalf of the Turkish government.

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi died in a hospital in June after fainting during a court hearing.

The public prosecutor said he had collapsed in a defendants’ cage in the courtroom shortly after speaking, and had been pronounced dead in hospital at 4:50 p.m. (1450 GMT).

Morsi’s family attended funeral prayers a day after his death in the mosque of Tora prison, then buried him in Cairo’s western district of Nasr City.

In the statement, Hafez said that the Turkish president’s “malicious practices are apparent after he embraced the terrorist Brotherhood organization and its elements in Turkey, and provided them with political support and media platforms for its terrorist elements to continue to promote their subversive ideas in Egypt and the Region.”

He added that Erdogan’s statements on Egypt are a “desperate attempt for him to steer attention away from his deteriorating regime and the successive losses he is suffering on the party level, the Turkish scene, and the international arena.”

The Turkish leader had come under heavy fire after the country’s top election body annulled the results of the March 31 mayoral vote in Istanbul and ordered a re-run on June 23.

The original vote was narrowly won by the opposition candidate, dealing the ruling AKP party its first defeat in the city, which has been controlled by the AKP and its predecessors, for 25 years. But Erdogan alleged “serious corruption” in the count.

In his UNGA speech, Erdogan also compared Israel to Nazi Germany, referring to the “massacre in the Gaza Strip” and comparing it to the Holocaust.

source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...c-accuses-Turkey-of-sponsoring-terrorism.html
 
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Erdogan the Honorable, Caliph is correct

Egypt is wrong for sitting on sidelines and watching Genonicide of Palestinians for last 30 years
They openly took the Billions in aid and looked the other way

The man has been speaking the truth for last 15 years

a) War in Syria, he was against it
b) Syrian child washes up on shores of the sea he spoke
c) Abuse of Muslims in Bangladesh border with Myanmar he again spoke for human rights
d) He ordered flotilla of peace to be sent to Palestine
e) Today he speaks about Kashmir, again human rights and respect for life

He does not speaks of war but for Humanitarian Justice and peace

This is what Muslims want a strong Muslim Nation's voice for Human Rights

Muslims today look towards Turkey as champion of Human Rights today
 
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We will see more of such provocative threads because this troll's ban has expired. It won't take long to get back into the hole where he come out.
 
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Well while the thread is provocative it is good to know what is happening in Egypt so as Muslims we can make sense of their logic?
 
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So says Trump's favorite little Dictator... Lol

Egypt detains more than 1,000 after anti-Sisi protests: NGOs
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In this file photo taken on March 02, 2017, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks at a press conference with Germany's chancellor, following their meeting in Cairo. — AFP
Egyptian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 people, rights groups said on Wednesday, broadening a crackdown that has seen prominent critics detained after rare protests calling for the ouster of general-turned-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The wave of arrests comes ahead of a “million-man march” on Friday called for by an exiled businessman whose online videos accusing Sisi and the military of corruption sparked last week's rallies.

The Egyptian Centre for Freedoms and Rights (ECRF) said 1,003 had been detained since the scattered demonstrations erupted last Friday in Cairo and other cities across the country.

The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights reported 1,298 arrested.

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The high profile dissidents detained include Khaled Dawoud, a former leader of the liberal Al-Dostour party who appeared in front of state prosecutors on Wednesday, his lawyers confirmed.

He was charged with disseminating fake news and joining a terror group, and was remanded in custody for 15 days, they added.

Dawoud will be tried as part of the same case as award-winning human rights lawyer Mahienour El-Massry and veteran labour union activist Kamal Khalil, both of whom were arrested over the past week, the lawyers said.

A well-known politician and journalist, Dawoud is a senior member of a broad coalition of leftist and liberal opposition parties that called on Tuesday for a “national dialogue” with authorities.

The alliance, known as the Civil Democratic Movement, urged authorities to release all those arrested since the sporadic protests broke out.

Arrest of academics
Two prominent academics are also among those detained, according to a lawyer and relatives.

Hazem Hosny, a Cairo University political science professor, was arrested on Tuesday night in front of his home, his lawyer Tarek al-Awadi said on Facebook.

French-educated Hosny was a spokesman for former Egyptian military chief of staff Sami Anan, who was detained after he attempted to run against Sisi in presidential elections last year.

The professor has been critical of Sisi on social media in recent days.

Hassan Nafaa, who teaches political science at Cairo University, was also detained from his home late Tuesday, family sources told AFP.

He too has denounced Sisi's heavy-handed approach in governing.

Nafaa told AFP earlier this week that Sisi's desired image as “Egypt's saviour from Muslim Brotherhood rule... has been completely dismantled”.

In July 2013, Sisi led the military ouster of Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi.

Demonstrations have since been effectively banned under an anti-protest law passed the same year.

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The growing list of those detained also includes three journalists held for their coverage of the protests.

Authorities on Wednesday had not yet publicly commented on the high-profile arrests.

'A great leader'
On Monday, US President Donald Trump hailed Sisi as “a great leader” who had restored “order” to Egypt, during a meeting at the UN in New York ahead of this week's General Assembly meeting.

Since last week, authorities have stepped up the security presence in Cairo and other cities.

On Tuesday, AFP journalists saw police frisking pedestrians near the capital's iconic Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the 2011 revolution which toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Security forces also checked the mobile phones of passersby.

Last week's protests followed an appeal by Mohamed Aly, an exiled Egyptian businessman living in Spain, to unseat Sisi after accusing him of corruption in a series of videos that went viral on social media.

Security forces, apparently caught by surprise, responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets in cities such as Suez to disperse the protesters.

Aly has called for a “million-man march” on Friday, labelling the unrest “a people's revolution”.

The government's foreign media accreditation body released a statement late Saturday warning international journalists that their reporting “should not be exaggerated”, without explicitly mentioning the protests.

Egypt has also come under fire from rights groups for disrupting internet access to the popular Facebook messenger mobile app and news sites such as the BBC.
 
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I thought Egypt used to be the undisputed leader in Muslim world fighting against Israel, what's the beef it has with Turkey?
 
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I thought Egypt used to be the undisputed leader in Muslim world fighting against Israel, what's the beef it has with Turkey?

Muslim brotherhood, Egypt now is with saudi Arabia and US.
 
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