Turkey to fast-track draft bill approving troop deployment in Qatar: Officials

[NoOne'sBoy]

Syria has entered its seventh year in the civil war. However it will be rebuilt and all unwanted elements (whether pro or anti-Assad) will be removed by Syrians themselves. Many countries survived a much greater onslaught. Anyway the Al-Assad regime bear the by far greatest burden here. The regime could have reformed and appointed another leader or removed Al-Assad rule and elected another official in the regime. Or kickstarted a transitional period.
That could have prevented all this mess. It's amazing how stupid he and his regime have been given what happened in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and elsewhere. Anyway Ba'athis (military regimes in general) usually don't give up easily and are hard to argue with. Martial law existed in Syria for almost 4 decades. That should tell you something.

Do you think they will pack their bags and leave? My guess is it's going to turn into Afghanistan 2.0. I agree on Assad regime. I even met Alawites who have had enough with them. The regime is all about corruption, power abuse and dictatorship.

 

[drmeson]

I'm against deteriorating our relations with GCC countries for the sake of Qatar.

You are a large and powerful entity. No expatriate run sheikhdom will dare to challenge your presence. Best solution for Qatari crisis would be for Turkiye to deploy as many troops as it can in Doha. Iran can bring in the supplies from Persian gulf and nothing will happen.

 

[mike2000 is back]

There is no fighting force there. Eventually Turkish force end up on border security and confront UAE and KSA in case of any border skirmish . Which hopefully not going to happened. But, still the flow of Turkish solder at this time will raise some GCC top boys eye brows.

Interesting news. We are all waiting for a clash between KSA and Turkey in Qatar then

Lol Jokes aside, I don't think there will be any war per se. This issue will be resolved diplomatically at the end of the day Qatar doesn't have any powerful ally that can protect them from a Saudi onslaught.
Moreover, the U.S has all the cards in its hand on this issue anyway. They are the key player here, if they really want Qatar's ruling family gone, it won't even take an hour for that to happen. Anyway, let's just hope this issue will be resolved sooner rather than later.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

You are a large and powerful entity. No expatriate run sheikhdom will dare to challenge your presence. Best solution for Qatari crisis would be for Turkiye to deploy as many troops as it can in Doha. Iran can bring in the supplies from Persian gulf and nothing will happen.

Time for you to wake up from your princess slumber. No regional power is any rival to us in our own neighborhood or anywhere in the Arab world. Egypt alone can deal with any troublemakers let alone all of us if attacked by foolish and delusional regional opportunists.

You should worry about a few rag-tag militias paralyzing your failed, impoverished and isolated entity by attacking your parliament and the shrine of your biggest cult figure in broad daylight during Ramadan. In the meantime you can sell some carpets and pistachios to Qataris and earn a meal or two. Delusional ajamis. Do you want some mustard gas again, is that it?

 

[thesolar65]

Looks like ME is going to see another fire works soon. Always busy!!

Want to know, what is the position of Russia and China here?

 

[damm1t]

Time for you to wake up from your princess slumber. No regional power is any rival to us in our own neighborhood or anywhere in the Arab world. Egypt alone can deal with any troublemakers let alone all of us if attacked by foolish and delusional regional opportunists.

You should worry about a few rag-tag militias paralyzing your failed, impoverished and isolated entity by attacking your parliament and the shrine of your biggest cult figure in broad daylight during Ramadan. In the meantime you can sell some carpets and pistachios to Qataris and earn a meal or two. Delusional ajamis.

Lol... 6 days war

 

[KediKesenFare3]

I'm against deteriorating our relations with GCC countries for the sake of Qatar.

Even though you know that UAE is supporting groups like PYD? Granted, I accept every criticism regarding Erdo's Syria policy. But in this case it is obviously the right choice to support Qatar. If we back them now, they will pour billions of USD in our economy and especially in our defence industry in the long run. Just imagine the benefits of investments in our defence industry for our military deterrence. They will be our first foreign customer purchasing TFX fighter jets. We're building LNG terminals right now for Qatari gas to become less reliant on Russian energy imports.

I'm not in love with Qatar. I'm defending them because I know that neither Saudi nor UAE is going to do the same for Turkey what Doha is doing right now.

 

[KediKesenFare3]

Interesting news. We are all waiting for a clash between KSA and Turkey in Qatar then

Lol Jokes aside, I don't think there will be any war per se. This issue will be resolved diplomatically at the end of the day Qatar doesn't have any powerful ally that can protect them from a Saudi onslaught.
Moreover, the U.S has all the cards in its hand on this issue anyway. They are the key player here, if they really want Qatar's ruling family gone, it won't even take an hour for that to happen. Anyway, let's just hope this issue will be resolved sooner rather than later.

The truth is that the US would never allow them to set a foot on Qatari soil.

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

BREAKING NEWS:

Turkish parliament approves the deployment of 5000 troops to Qatar

https://twitter.com/x/status/872499676058181633

 

[The SC]

Turkey to fast-track draft bill approving troop deployment in Qatar: Officials
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/turk...ving-troop-deployment-in-qatar-officials.html

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For once, I actually support Turkey and Qatar. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have gone way too far.

Maybe this was planed before! Turkey plays with KSA and the US too.. Turkey can play Sword and Shield very well..
Less than a year ago, both KSA and Turkey announced that they were both targeted, but didn't say by whom..
The EU is a good suspect considering its open animosity towards Turkey and more than three or four members accusing KSA for Human rights violations and restraining weapons sales to both the latter and Turkey for different reasons..
Note: NOW it is the same EU who is letting refugees drown in the Mediterranean without helping them.. So where are those human rights values (actually they are doing the worst human right violations by denying life to those refugees) they used as an alibi to sabotage progress in Turkey and KSA?

 

[SubWater]

don't be like Russians or other europian countries to sell your ally to highest price or turn back from your friend at hard time.
just learn it.
people should can trust you.

 

[Targon]

Even though you know that UAE is supporting groups like PYD? Granted, I accept every criticism regarding Erdo's Syria policy. But in this case it is obviously the right choice to support Qatar. If we back them now, they will pour billions of USD in our economy and especially in our defence industry in the long run. Just imagine the benefits of investments in our defence industry for our military deterrence. They will be our first foreign customer purchasing TFX fighter jets. We're building LNG terminals right now for Qatari gas to become less reliant on Russian energy imports.

I'm not in love with Qatar. I'm defending them because I know that neither Saudi nor UAE is going to do the same for Turkey what Doha is doing right now.

Those troops cannot protect Qatar. We are simply too far away to do any intimidation. If we had a land border with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, things would be different. They couldnt lift a finger.

 

[Rukarl]

Why is this slave eunuch Gypsy barking against his military, religious, cultural and linguistic conquerors?

Must be the mustard gas that you grow up with.

Didn't this sub-human once claim he is part Iranian? @ResurgentIran @JEskandari
In one of this 6 million fake account. In reality it turned out he is a afro arab like his mother

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

BREAKING NEWS:

Turkish parliament approves the deployment of 5000 troops to Qatar

https://twitter.com/x/status/872499676058181633

Throwback to this time last year, when Al-Hasani told me that I was wrong about the rivalry between the Qatari-Turkish axis and Saudi-Emirati axis rofl:

Bad news for the anti-Muslim Brotherhood countries, namely Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Mrs./Mr. half Baloch and half English.

The Muslim Brotherhood (a group that I am personally neutral about) have little if no future in the Arab world. At least in their current form. It's moreover an native Egyptian movement although a few copycat movements inspired by them have emerged in a few Arab and Muslim countries. Some analysts even claim that AKP have been inspired by them and they are probably right to an extend. Anyway they play a very small role politically in the Arab world overall let alone the Mashriq/Arabian Peninsula. Basically the political and economic support of the MB is an "Qatari project" to expand their influence as they are otherwise a tiny state that is unable to yield any serious geopolitical influence. Erdogan and the AKP are on the same boat but Turkey's position is very flexible in this regard. Turkey's secular model is also contrary to MB's vision as well as Turkey's business relations with Israel and Iran.

It's also ironic that Qatar (a monarchy and a Western ally) supports MB movements in other Arab countries (of course not the GCC itself) but not in their own.

Maybe most importantly, ties between KSA, since King Salman became king, have become quite close if not very close, so this small base (3000) is not seen as any "threat" whatsoever. KSA, Qatar and Turkey remain under the US umbrella and the same overall faction in the MENA region. Qatar's future is also extremely closely aligned to that of the GCC (the hegemon KSA in particular in that region of the world) as a whole and that fact no outside power is able to change whatsoever. Another obvious thing is that Qatar's entire population originates from nearby KSA including their royal family. There will come a time where all those small GCC states will join KSA (or t's successor state) and form a united federal Arabia politically, economically etc. which this whole "GCC project" (originally a club of monarchs) will inevitable lead to due to geopolitical circumstances and common logic. Whether the current rulers in power today want this or not.

Not to mention that Qatar hosts the largest US military base in the MENA region already so this changes little.

If anything this is bad news for Iran as Arabs and Turkey are intensifying their relation - a relation that has a lot of potential. Also Arab-Turkish interests will always align more with each other than Turkish-Iranian relations. So this news is welcome for the Arabs and it also makes additional sense given the formation of the Saudi Arabian-led Islamic coalition which Turkey is a key partner of. I see that coalition in regards to the MENA region at least as a "KSA-Turkey project". In fact I predict that KSA-Turkey ties will only increase in the future especially as KSA is reforming politically, socially and economically. KSA and Turkey are already G-20 Major Economies member states partners and developing nations that face similar challenges. Both countries are at a crossroad in many ways as well.

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.

@bsruzm @HAKIKAT

I think that you can both see what this individual is trying to do here. She/he is desperately trying to portray KSA and Turkey as enemies while this is nothing more than a nonsense claim that does not correspondent to ground realities especially after Salman became king. What I wrote in post 7 are pure facts and despite certain political disagreements the overall interests of both regimes/countries are aligned and everyone can see that.

The funniest thing is her/his blabbering about an Iranian base in Qatar, lol.

Who's laughing now?

 

[-SINAN-]

You are a large and powerful entity. No expatriate run sheikhdom will dare to challenge your presence. Best solution for Qatari crisis would be for Turkiye to deploy as many troops as it can in Doha. Iran can bring in the supplies from Persian gulf and nothing will happen.

If these PGCC countries become strong more than enough they will put their dagger in your back as they (Saudis in particular) did against Ottoman empire. So it is better to dictate your policies and challenge them before they become much mulish.

Ps. You need Qatar and Iran for oil and gas.

Bros, in general. ı think we have enough enemies, we don't need any more to add to the list.

Even though you know that UAE is supporting groups like PYD?

Do you know who else is giving support including heavy weapons to PYD ? ıf that's your criteria than Erdo should all of the US soldiers from our soil.

Even though you know that UAE is supporting groups like PYD?

Granted, I accept every criticism regarding Erdo's Syria policy. But in this case it is obviously the right choice to support Qatar. If we back them now, they will pour billions of USD in our economy and especially in our defence industry in the long run. Just imagine the benefits of investments in our defence industry for our military deterrence. They will be our first foreign customer purchasing TFX fighter jets. We're building LNG terminals right now for Qatari gas to become less reliant on Russian energy imports.

I'm not in love with Qatar. I'm defending them because I know that neither Saudi nor UAE is going to do the same for Turkey what Doha is doing right now. [/QUOTE]
They won't be pouring any $ as their economy is being raped. More over betting on Al-Thani blindly is wrong. We saw what happened in Eygpt. (They were going to buy Ankas and Altays and they were gonna boost our defense industry).

And more over FDI from all GCC countries combined is %7, from EU it's %75.

I believe it's in our interests to be neutral and keeping the dialog with both sides.