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Turkey Rejects 'Unrealistic' Demands to Shut Qatar Base
[An Nahar] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has dismissed as "unrealistic" demands to close a military base in Qatar  ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...as sought by a Saudi-led bloc caught up in a row with the emirate, according to reports Tuesday. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the presence of "We believe this demand is both unrealistic and irrelevant," the Turkey and Qatar had signed a defense agreement in 2014, "long before the Gulf crisis", he added. Cavusoglu also said the diplomatic impasse should be resolved without delay. Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt called for the closure of the Tariq bin Ziyad camp in Doha as part of a string of conditions to end their diplomatic and political isolation of Qatar. The Saudi-led boycott imposed a blockade on Qatar in June 2017 over allegations the emirate supports radical Islamist groups and is seeking closer ties with regional arch-rival Iran. Qatar denies the charges, accusing its neighbors of seeking regime change. Closure of the Qatar dismissed those demands as "neither reasonable nor actionable." It is thought that 3,000 troops Posted by: Fred 2018-10-31 |
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