Egypt’s president in Turkey as relations between two countries thaw

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi began an official visit to Turkey Wednesday for meetings with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

It is the first official visit to Turkey by an Egyptian president in 12 years and comes amid a warming of relations between the two regional powers.

In February, Erdogan made his first visit to Egypt in more than a decade after the two countries agreed to mend ties and reappointed…