Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al Saud, and Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammad Ishaq Dar at Tahrir Palace in Cairo, Egypt, on June 21, 2026. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
Growing cooperation between Egypt and Turkey is drawing increasing attention in Athens, where officials are monitoring developments that they believe reflect a broader shift in regional diplomacy and a decline in communication between Greece and Egypt.
Greek concerns were heightened after Cairo did not inform Athens about a recent four-party meeting involving Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey. For Greece, attention remains focused on Libya, where Turkey has spent the past year seeking greater access and influence within the Haftar family, which controls the country’s eastern region.
On Tuesday, Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin visited Benghazi, where he was received by Saddam Haftar, deputy commander of forces based there and the figure widely viewed as successor to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
The undisclosed four-party meeting, which also addressed Libya, is one of several developments over the past year that suggest a deficit of trust between Athens and Cairo.
