Turkey has officially invited Egypt to attend the 13th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to be held in Turkey's Istanbul next April, Al-Bawaba news reported Monday. "Egypt, the term president of the OIC, would be naturally invited to the summit," the Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgiç said Saturday, adding that the decision regarding the level of Egypt's representation at the summit will be taken by its own authorities. Egypt will be attending the summit to hand over to Turkey its OIC presidency term, but some Turkish media outlets reported that an unprecedented meeting could take place between President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Both presidents have not held talks since Sisi assumed office in June 2014. Yet Egyptian officials haven't responded to the invitation, or the level of presentation. Tensions between Egypt and Turkey have been on the rise since the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, an ally of Erdogan, following mass protests against his presidency in July 2013.
