Erdogan’s UN speech provokes strong condemnation from Egypt: The Foreign Ministry issued a statement yesterday strongly condemning comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, in which he claimed that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi came to power in a coup. Ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez rebuked Erdogan for domestic human rights violations and his sponsorship of terrorism abroad.