JAKARTA - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed "the immediate start of increasing diplomatic relations, the exchange of ambassadors," the Egyptian Presidential Office said in a statement on Monday.
President El Sisi spoke with President Erdogan by telephone to congratulate him on his victory and to be re-elected as president.
Meanwhile, Turkey's Presidential Directorate of Communications said it was President El Sisi who called President Erdogan, as quoted by Daily Sabah.
On the occasion, the two leaders also discussed various issues, including the economy and steps that must be taken to deepen Turkey-Egyptical relations, as well as address regional issues.
El Sisi's president was one of the leaders who called President Erdogan after the earthquake, expressing his condolences to the earthquake victims.
It is known that diplomatic relations between Turkey and Egypt have taken place at the level of a power of attorney, since the Egyptian military coup toppled late President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Egypt's history, which is linked to Ottoman domination in Turkey, has kept the two countries across the Mediterranean Sea close for centuries.
Renewable relations were in 1925, when the young Turkish Republic established diplomatic relations with Cairo in 1925, but it took more than two decades before Turkey appointed an ambassador to Egypt.
After that, relations between the two countries generally stabilized except for several terms of suspension in the 1960s, and peaked when Morsi was elected president in 2012.
After Morsi was ousted, Turkey remained in a relationship with Cairo before lowering diplomatic ties in 2013, but the majority of economic relations were not disrupted.
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