Egypt's January 25 Revolution will remain a turning point in history: Sisi

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Wednesday that 2011’s January 25 Revolution “will remain a turning point in this country’s history.”


In an official televised address by the president on its sixth anniversary, El-Sisi said that the 2011 revolution expressed the desire of Egyptians for change and their aspiration to build a new future for the nation.

“My dear Egyptian people, the revolution will remain a turning point in this country’s history, where the hopes were huge at its beginning, but so was the unprecedented frustration that followed when the revolution diverted from its right path and was seized by people with interests and unpatriotic intent,” El-Sisi said.

He added that this path was soon rectified “by the revolution of the people in 30 June 2013," with the people "retrieving the right to preserve their identity and decide on their fate" and the fight to thwart “terrorist and dark groups.”

On 30 June 2013, millions of Egyptians took to the streets to protest the rule of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, who hails from the now banned Muslim Brotherhood group, and who had come to power a year prior.
 [ahram.org.eg]
25/1/17