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Turkish FM Survives Opposition Censure Motion Over Mishandling Foreign Policy, Aligning Turkey With Muslim Brotherhood - The Tower - The Tower

Turkish FM Survives Opposition Censure Motion Over Mishandling Foreign Policy, Aligning Turkey With Muslim Brotherhood

by TheTower.org Staff | 12.10.13 11:43 am

English-language Turkish media reported yesterday that the country’s parliament, which the Daily News described as ”dominated by deputies from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),” rejected an opposition-filed censure motion filed against AKP Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu over his role in generating the recent precipitous decline in Turkey’s regional stature. The motion cited among other things souring relations between Ankara and Cairo, which collapsed after Egypt’s army removed from power the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked then-president Mohammed Morsi in the wake of mass anti-government protests.

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