Abdullah al-Husseni, the Minister of Islamic Endowments (Awqaf), will send a delegation of the ministry's Quran reciters to Turkey next Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. He also plans to turn the historic school of Sultan Mahmoud into a center of the Turkish culture in Cairo. Al-Husseni said such a center will be a symbol of the friendship between the two countries and a bridge of cultural communication. He said that allocating the school requires coordination between Egypt's ministries of Awqaf and Antiquities. He said that the historic relations between the two countries are supported by a common cultural and historic heritage through hundreds of years. The Egyptian minister raised the necessity of developing the bilateral relations as the future of the Middle East and the Islamic world is related to the strength of the two countries. Egypt's Awqaf minister and the Turkish ambassador to Cairo, Hussien Awni, discussed during their meeting in Cairo the ways to support relations and cooperation between the two countries in the religious and cultural fields especially in the current conditions that the region has witnessed. The Egyptian official expressed the ministry's readiness to cooperate with the Turkish government to achieve the interests of the two countries, describing Turkey as a model from which we can benefit especially in the current stage. The Turkish ambassador expressed Turkey's confidence in Egypt's ability to overcome the current conditions and to restore its position as a leader country in the region, adding that Turkey is keen to keep Egypt as a strong country and to achieve the interests of the two countries.
