Turkish Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is speaking Arabic in Egypt Cairo !!! Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives here Monday night, part of a three nation tour that will include Tunisia and Libya as Turkey expands its diplomatic efforts. Israeli ambassadors have been forced to abandon their posts in both Turkey and Egypt over the past week, albeit for sharply different reasons. On Friday, Israel's ambassador to Egypt fled the country along with other Israeli diplomats, after an angry crowd broke down a protective wall around the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and stormed the bottom floor of the diplomatic mission. Egypt's ruling military council denounced the riot and announced the re-activation a controversial series of emergency laws to restore order. It also vowed to honor the peace treaty it signed with its Israeli neighbor in the historic 1979 Camp David accords. Meanwhile, Turkey, which was once Israel's closest friend in the Muslim world, ejected Israel's ambassador and other top diplomats earlier this month and suspended all bilateral military agreements. Ankara is furious that Israel has not apologized for the May 2010 killing of eight Turkish citizens and a Turkish-American humanitarian worker aboard an aid convoy headed to Gaza. Israeli commandos raided the vessel to prevent it from breaking Israel's sea blockade of the Palestinian territory.
