By: Fehim Taştekin for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on August 21. |
One of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) foreign policy success stories has been the election of Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu as secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The organization became as active as Ankara wanted it to be. But nowadays, AKP-Ihsanoglu relations have hit rock bottom because Ihsanoglu did not denounce the Egyptian military coup as strongly as AKP wanted. The relationship crisis that has at its core Turk-Saudi rivalry became public with the unconventional Aug. 17 Twitter messages of AKP Deputy Chairman Huseyin Celik:
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