Turkey and the Gulf
February 01, 2015 - 3:24:41 am
Dr Khalid Al Jaber
Are new steps being taken towards enhancing ties between the Gulf and Turkey? If not, I think it is time to take some serious measures in this direction. The chill in relations between the two sides witnessed in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the coldness marking the relations due to the crises in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Palestine and more specifically the Gaza Strip, in addition to some economic and investment issues, do not augur well for the region. We can notice that relations on Turkey have formed around two axes – first led by the UAE and Saudi, which is conservative in its approach, and the second by Qatar and Kuwait, which is more flexible, both of which are moving in different directions.
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