Evidently, you know nothing about the UAE or the region's politics lol.
Khalfan is the unofficial spokesman for the UAE government. He says exactly what Mohammed bin Zayed asks him to say. Everyone and their dog knows that lol.
Ali Abdullah Saleh's family lives in Dubai. The UAE has very close ties to the former Yemeni president. The UAE and Saudi Arabia have different objectives for Yemen. The Saudis want Yemen to remain unified and under the rule of their favorite lackey, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. The Emiratis, on the other hand, want to divide Yemen into two parts. They want the South Yemen Movement to rule over South Yemen, and Ali Abdullah Saleh to rule over North Yemen.
In short, nothing Dhahi Khalfan has ever said went against the views of the UAE rulers. If anything, he has been rewarded and promoted over the years.
There's a very good reason why Turkey is setting up a military base in Qatar rather than Bahrain, the UAE or Saudi Arabia.
Over the years, Qatar has signed military agreements with two countries that are feared by the Saudis and Emirati rulers: Turkey and Iran.
Last year, the Qataris signed a military agreement with Iran that would allow the Iranian navy to establish a presence in Qatar's territorial waters. I will provide you a link and pictures once I have enough posts to do so.
Also, back in 2010, Qatar signed an agreement with Iran that would allow the Iranian military to enter Qatari soil should Qatar be invaded by another country (e.g. Saudi Arabia).
The point is, Qatar is hated (and not trusted) by the ruling elites of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Back in 2014, Saudi Arabia and the UAE withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar after they accused the Qataris of sponsoring the Muslim Brotherhood movement. In late 2012, Qatar's former prime minister (Hamad bin Jassim) tried to overthrow the ruling family and government of Kuwait with the help of the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood. Sources close to the Kuwaiti royal family say that Kuwait was ready to go to war with Qatar over this issue. This would've destroyed the GCC once and for all. Eventually, a deal was brokered by the other GCC states, in which Hamad bin Jassim and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa would step down from power in exchange for peace, which they finally did in June 2013.
I hope you now understand why the Qataris want the Turks to set up a military base in their country and why they also signed numerous military agreements with the Iranians. They're doing all of this because they do not trust the Americans for protection. The Americans aren't willing to jeopardize their relations with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait for the sake of Qatar. The Turks, on the other hand, share the same pro-Muslim Brotherhood agenda as Qatar, therefore they are, for the time being, natural allies in the region. Likewise, the Iranians and Qataris are also natural allies due to the offshore gas field that they share.
Just look at Egypt and Libya. In Egypt, Morsi, who was backed by Qatar and Turkey, was overthrown by a Saudi- and Emirati-backed military dictator (i.e. el-Sisi). In Libya, the Emiratis and Saudis are fighting a proxy war against the Islamist government in Tripoli, which happens to be backed by Qatar and Turkey.
Saudi Arabia is trying hard right now to convince the Turks to abandon Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, and play second fiddle to the Saudis in the region. The Turks won't accept this because it would do a lot of long-term damage to their regional credibility.
By the way, do you know that the UAE quietly ordered its citizens to sell anything they owned in Turkey? Kuwait is also doing the same thing.
The Saudis are being cautious right now. They don't want to directly oppose the Turks because they still think they can convince Turkey to change its foreign policy positions. Nonetheless, the Saudis are funding most of the anti-Turkish rhetoric in countries like Kuwait and the UAE.
The Saudis are in a lot of trouble. They know that, if the Muslim Brotherhood comes back to power in Egypt with the help of Turkey, they will be next.