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This article tries to explain the severe releases that occurred in the Turkish-Egyptian relations after 2011. In this framework, he claims that what happened after the Arab Rebellion marked an exceptional period in the history of bilateral relations, and points to four foundations to better understand this: changes in regional power balance, economic difficulties and opportunities, identities and ideologies of political electors, and ultimately internal political concerns and calculations. The article, first of all, tries to understand the regional, political and economic reasons behind Ankara’s opening of foreign policy to Egypt and Cairo’s positive reaction to it in the transitional period, which began with the mass rebellion in Egypt. Secondly, the article discusses the historic peak in which bilateral relations have reached with the arrival of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi to power in 2012 in Egypt. This is emphasized on the ideological harmony between the Justice and Development Party and the Muslim Brothers and the role of Turkey in supporting the Mursy power in Egypt in an economic and political sense. Finally, the article examines the strong reaction of Turkey to the 2013 coup that removed Mursi from power and the reaction of Egypt to that during the process. In this context, on the one hand, the changes in regional power balances, on the other hand, the problems arising from internal policy in both countries and the fact that the internal and external policy passivity in the framework of ideological polarization has increased in a speechful sense. The study, in addition to the scan of news, data and analysis on the political and economic dimensions of bilateral relations after 2011, is based on deep discussions with Turkish and Egyptian diplomats, politicians, bureaucrates, businessmen and civil society officials who have a role and/or experience in the relations between Turkey and Egypt.

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