Egypt and Turkey plan to upgrade their already growing relations to a "strategic partnership", with total co-operation in making weapons and sharing intelligence, sources have told The National.

The sources spoke before the arrival in Cairo on Wednesday of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He is scheduled to fly from Saudi Arabia where he held talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

In Egypt, Mr Erdogan will discuss with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi a plan to make weapons at a military industrial complex to be built on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, the sources sa

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