(MENAFN) Turkey has been perusing the expansion of its influence in Africa in the face of tensions with Egypt, where calls are growing for a public boycott of Turkish goods.
Ties between Ankara and Cairo strained in 2013, when then Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi toppled the country's first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan labeled Sisi's rise to power as a "coup" an accused the UN of having done "nothing but watch the events such as overthrowing the elected president in Egypt."
Recently, Erdogan finished a five-day tour of the African countries of Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal and Mali with a large business delegation and a diplomatic entourage.
"We want to walk with Africa while a new world order is being established," he tweeted at the end of his trip.
Meanwhile, boycott calls in Egypt are raising up amid protest what its leaders call Erdogan's "anti-Egyptian policies", the boycott campaign has become the most trending topic on Egyptian social media, with 12,000 tweets including #boycott Turkish products, privately-owned Egyptian daily Youm7 reported on Sunday.
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