In Egypt, had been executed on Wednesday with nine men for the murder of the Egyptian Prosecutor-General in the year 2015. to Amnesty International had in vain demanded that the executions be suspended. Human rights organizations have been complaining of for a long time, the state Repression in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is going on with all hardness against Islamists and against government critics.

Shortly before the start of the first summit of the EU countries with the Arab League in Egypt, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has, according to the Egyptian head of state due to the execution of death sharply criticized. “You recently executed nine young people,” said the Turkish President on Saturday in a television interview. Turkey “could accept something like that,” said Erdogan to broadcasters CNN Turk and channel d.

The government in Cairo will refer to the “of course” to the fact that it was a “decision of the judiciary,” Erdogan said. In Egypt, the “justice, elections, all of it, but nonsense”. It said there was an “authoritarian, even totalitarian System”. Erdogan said on al-Sisi, he’ll talk, “never with someone like him.”

The relations between Ankara and Cairo are heavily strained since the Egyptian military in 2013, overthrew the Islamist President, Mohammed Morsi, a close ally of Erdogan’s. Many members of Egypt’s now outlawed Muslim brotherhood, Morsi’s found since then, refuge in Turkey.

First summit meeting with the Arab League

The EU member States come together on Sunday evening in Egypt to their first summit with the Arab League. The Meeting in the seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, in which the German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes part, is to allow a closer cooperation in the refugee policy. Also on issues like security and trade, as well as conflicts such as in Syria and Libya is to be spoken.

the two-day summit, al-Sisi and President of the European Council Donald Tusk. The EU countries had decided to Meet with the Arab League at the EU summit in October, in order to strengthen the cooperation with countries of origin and transit of refugees, especially in North Africa. The EU stresses, however, that it should go at the Meeting, not only to eliminate illegal immigration. (nag/AFP)

Created: 24.02.2019, 09:34 PM