The devastating earthquakes in early February in Turkey’s Kahramanmaraş province, which left more than 46,000 dead under the rubble in southern Turkey and northern Syria, are now shaking the geopolitics of the region. In the midst of an international campaign to assist the victims, the Egyptian government of Abdel Fattah El Sisi has reached out to Ankara to rebuild diplomatic ties that have been severed since the military coup that toppled Erdoğan’s great ally, former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, a decade ago. Before the tragedy, their relations were already going through a period of détente promoted by the Turkish president with those who had been his great regional adversaries since the outbreak of the Arab Spring.
Erdoğan, who continued to consider the Islamist Morsi as Egypt’s legitimate president even two years after his fall at the hands of the then…
