Via AFP:

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy told the London-based Al-Hayat daily that Egyptian relations with the U.S. were “turbulent” and the Egyptian public has “unprecedented negative views” toward the United States.

Speaking from New York where he is attending the U.N. General Assembly, Fahmy said that voices within Egypt are calling for shifting strategic alliances from United States to countries like Russia, but described such calls as “unacceptable.”

The US administration declined to label military’s overthrow of Morsi on July 3 as a coup and argued it was in the U.S. national security interest to keep American support flowing.

However, the issue divided both parties in Congress. Some say US aid to Egypt should be cut off. Others contend the $1.5 billion of mostly military aid is critical for U.S. and Israeli security.