Has Turkish President Erdoğan Distanced Himself from the Muslim Brotherhood? by Burak Bekdil  •  February 7, 2019 at 3:00 pm         The picture sent shockwaves through the Turkish grassroots: A poor Egyptian member of the Muslim Brotherhood, handcuffed by the Turkish police, put aboard a Turkish Airlines plane to fly back to Cairo, to be tortured and eventually executed. Is President Erdoğan not a staunch supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood? Is he not an eternal enemy of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to power after toppling the Muslim Brotherhood man, former president Mohamed Morsi, a darling of Erdoğan? The "mistake" was that the Erdoğan administration was not expecting Hussein, so the immigration officers treated him as just another illegal entry. He would not have been arrested and extradited if the Turkish authorities had known he was a member of the Ikhwan. False alarm. Erdoğan apparently has not changed, after all. An Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood member was deported by the Turkish police back to Cairo, to be tortured and eventually executed. But isn't Turkey's President Erdoğan a staunch supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and an eternal enemy of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi? (Image sources: Elif Sogut/Andrew Burton/Getty Images) The picture sent shockwaves through Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's grassroots: A poor Egyptian member of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan in Arabic) handcuffed by the Turkish police, put aboard a Turkish Airlines plane to fly back to Cairo, to be tortured and eventually executed. Is President Erdoğan not a staunch supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood? Is he not an eternal enemy of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to power after toppling the Ikhwan man, former president Mohamed Morsi, a darling of Erdoğan? Did Erdoğan not freeze diplomatic relations with el-Sisi's Egypt? Continue Reading Article