Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said his close ally Mohammad Mursi was “killed” and accused Egyptian authorities of failing to intervene to save the ex-president. “Mursi was struggling on the floor in the courtroom for 20 minutes. Authorities unfortunately did not intervene to save him,” Erdogan said during ...
Egypt accused the United Nations on Wednesday of seeking to “politicize” the death in court of the country’s first democratically elected president Mohammad Mursi by calling for an “independent inquiry”. Foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez said he condemned “in the strongest terms” the call by the spokesman for the UN ...