The Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed on Thursday its dismay over the speech given by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the UN General Assembly, saying that it “included lies and fabrications that represent a disregard for the will of the Egyptian people.” The Foreign Ministry said that Erdogan’s speech “promotes a narrow personal vision and ideology that defies the truth,” in an official statement published on its Facebook page. Sameh Shoukry, Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, has also cancelled a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu scheduled for Thursday, the statement said. On Wednesday, in his speech before the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, the Turkish President said that “those who raised their voices against the murders in Syria and Iraq and against the massacre of democracy in Egypt are also being unjustly labelled and accused of supporting terrorism.” Turkey’s Erdogan also criticized the United Nations for legitimizing the Presidency of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. “The United Nations as well as the democratic countries have done nothing but watch the events such as overthrowing the elected president in Egypt and the killings of thousands of innocent people who want…
