Al-Shark channel snapshot
Turkey’s foreign ministry has said that Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated channels are not being broadcast from Turkey, according to Egypt’s charge d’affairs in Istanbul.
Turkish officials told Hussein El-Saharty that they did not issue permits to any channels that incite violence, Reuter`s Aswat Masriya reported.
Earlier this month the Egyptian foreign ministry issued an official complaint against "terrorist channels supporting the Muslim Brotherhood broadcasting from inside Turkish territories.”
El-Saharty told Aswat Masriya in an interview that the Turkish foreign ministry requested to meet him and denied "the charges regarding Turkey's sponsorship of these channels."
However, El-Saharty said he stressed that "the crew working on the Brotherhood channels such as Al-Sharq, Egypt Now, and other channels, are currently in Istanbul and Ankara."
The Muslim Brotherhood was declared a terrorist organisation by the Egyptian government in 2013.
El-Saharty said he told Turkish diplomats that "it is not hard for the Turkish security forces to find out where those channels are being broadcasted from."
In September Turkish media quoted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying that his country welcomes senior figures from Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood after they were asked to leave Qatar under pressure from other Gulf states.
El-Saharty renewed calls for immediate deportation of those members of the Brotherhood against whom Interpol has issued a red notice.
Relations between Egypt and Turkey have deteriorated since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
The Turkish leader Erdogan has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of Morsi's ouster, repeatedly describing the transition as a "coup" and criticising the world's "inaction" towards the Egyptian government's crackdown on Islamists, which has seen hundreds killed and thousands jailed.
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