Turkey did not develop the moral basis of its partnership and cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood's Egypt in the realms of democracy, human rights, equality, freedoms and participation. If it had done so, it would have engaged with Egypt as a country instead of with the Ikhwan, and a relationship based on common interests could have been sustained without impairing the criticality of such values. The Turkey of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), however, never criticized the Ikhwan, even indirectly, for its blatantly authoritarian deviations from democracy. The ideological position Turkey adopted did not allow such criticism.
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