| Checking on his boy's progress against mutual goals? |
...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...
on March 12 met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
for surprise talks in the capital Ankara, a Turkish presidential official said.
Just there to look over the property...
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was holding closed-door talks at Erdogan's newly built presidential palace in Ankara, the official told AFP, without elaborating further.
The meeting, which was not on Erdogan's official daily schedule, comes amid renewed tensions stemming from the presence of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists in Iraq and Syria right up to the Turkish border.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and Qatar, both overwhelmingly Sunni Moslem, have emerged as close allies in the last years during the conflict in Syria and Arab Spring uprisings.
They have closely aligned their policies on Syria and have also both intensively engaged with the Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
Qatar has been one of the main supporters of the rebellion against Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
and has allowed demonstrations against him to be held in its capital, Doha.
However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
some have accused the country of backing jihadists, a charge denied on several occasions by officials in the oil rich Gulf state, which joined the US-led coalition against gunnies in Syria and Iraq.
A vocal outspoken of the regime in Damascus, Turkey has similarly backed opposition rebels fighting to topple Assad and plays host to nearly two million refugees.
But it has remained reluctant to take robust action against the jihadist threat in a US-led coalition, further straining ties with Washington, its NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
ally.
US special envoy John Allen, who is coordinating international efforts against ISIL, is due to travel to Ankara this week to meet with Turkish officials after a visit to Italia, the US State Department said in a statement.