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June 9th, 2017 
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nsnbc : Turkey’s parliament approved the deployment of troops to Qatar while neighboring Iran offered to provide food supplies to ward off food shortages caused by the row between Qatar, its Gulf-Arab neighbors as well as Egypt and imposed sanctions.
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Turkish MPs gave the green light for a long-agreed military agreement with Qatar and the stationing of Turkish troops in the Gulf-Arab state. It is currently unclear how many troops Turkey will deploy but Turkey is in the process of setting up a military base in Qatar. The base is expected to be completed in 2018.
Unofficial figures mention the possibility to station up to 3,000 Turkish troops there during “joint training exercises”. On Wednesday the Turkish, Muslim Brotherhood affiliated AKP government voiced its support of Qatar in the strongest possible terms.
On Monday Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as Egypt announced they were severing diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar and ordered land and sea borders to be closed and to suspend flights. Their citizens were encouraged to leave Qatar.
The goal with the severing of diplomatic and economic ties is to prompt Qatar to end its support of terrorism. More specifically, this refers to Qatar’s support of a cohort of Muslim Brotherhood and Taliban-linked organizations and insurgencies. It is a policy that Qatar has in common with Turkey. Not that networks in Saudi Arabia would not support terrorism, but the organizations they support are rather of Wahhabi / Salafist observance.
Qatar denied links to terrorism or that Doha is a state sponsor of terrorism. As usual, it is a question of social constructionism rather than of terrorism per se. Qatar hosts a Taliban office and does not consider the Muslim Brotherhood – which is outlawed in for example Egypt and the UAE as a terrorist organization.
On Wednesday Turkey’s President R. Tayyip Erdogan expressed his support for Qatar while he avoided to criticize Saudi Arabia and others who are involved in the dispute. Erdogan said:
“I’d like to say that we don’t find sanctions against Qatar right. The most appropriate way for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to solve their internal issues is through dialogue. In this regard, we admire Qatar’s constructive and cool-headed approach.”
He added that Turkey is willing to do everything to resolve other countries’ grievances with Qatar. It is noteworthy that Iran offered Qatar food supplies to ward off food shortages caused by the sanctions.
Ironically, Qatar and Iran were bitter rivals since 2007 when the world’s largest gas field, shared 50/50 between the two countries was discovered.
It may seem even more ironic that rivalling gas pipeline projects became one of the main contributing factors to Qatar’s involvement in manipulating the start of the war on Syria – together with Turkey, in 2011.
Even more ironic then, may seem the fact that it now would be Syria’s long-standing ally Iran that offers aid to the people of Qatar.
CH/L – nsnbc 08.06.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/06/08/turkey-to-deploy-troops-to-qatar-iran-offers-food-supplies-to-ward-off-food-shortages/
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