Egypt's Sameh Shoukry will travel to Damascus on Monday in the first visit by an Egyptian foreign minister since Syria's conflict erupted in 2011, according to a statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry.
But Assad has benefited from an outpouring of support from Arab states following the quake, which killed more than 5,900 people across his country, according to a tally of U.N. and Syrian government figures.
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi spoke with Assad by phone for the first time on Feb. 7 and on Sunday, a delegation of top parliamentarians from around the region - including Egypt's parliament speaker -Diplomatic relations between Egypt and Turkey were also severed after Sisi, then army chief, led the 2013 overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi, a close ally of Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan.
Relations began thawing in 2021, part of a push by Turkey to ease tensions with several regional powers. Erdogan and Sisi met and shook hands during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and Turkish companies earlier this month committed toShoukry met his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in 2021 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and Cairo has sent several shipments of earthquake aid to Syria in recent weeks.
Reporting by Kinda Makieh and Maya Gebeily Additional reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever in Ankara Editing by Alexander Smith and Christina Fincher
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