Egypt’s Foreign Ministry condemned “irresponsible” statements made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about Egypt, Ahram Online reported. Erdogan accused “the Egyptian regime of providing support to the Gulen movement,” whom he earlier accused of masterminding the failed coup attempt in Turkey in July. FM spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid said the statement comes as a “continuation to the blundering and double standards approach that the Turkish policies have been characterised by throughout the past years.” During the crackdown on alleged coup participants and rivals and Erdogan’s push to have Gulen extradited from the US, Egyptian MPs had called for Gulen to be granted asylum in Egypt, demands which the government has never publicly stated it would support.