Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad

MANGO JUICE is delicious. So AK officials had no reason to complain when Mr Erdogan began serving it in his palace last year. But they may have been baffled to hear that it was a present from Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. For Mr Erdogan and Mr Sisi had not been on speaking terms for a decade. As an avowed Islamist, Mr Erdogan had thrown his full weight behind the Muslim Brotherhood, which took power in Egypt in 2011 after protests toppled Hosni Mubarak. When Mr Sisi seized power two years later, in a coup that killed hundreds of protesters, Turkey’s leader called him a tyrant, held rallies in support of Muhammad Morsi, the deposed Egyptian president, and gave other Brotherhood leaders a haven.