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| Bahrain's FM in about-face over Turkish base in Qatar |
| 2017-06-27 |
| [Al Jazeera] Just over two weeks after stating that ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's military presence 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... has no relation to an ongoing Gulf crisis, Bahrain's foreign minister appears to have performed a complete u-turn. Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa on Monday accused Qatar of creating a "military escalation" in the regional diplomatic dispute, in an apparent reference to the long-planned deployment of Turkish troops in Qatar's capital, Doha, in recent days. "The disagreement with Qatar is a political and security dispute and has never been military," the Bahraini foreign minister said on Twitter. "But the deployment of foreign troops with their armoured vehicles is a military escalation for which Qatar will bear the consequences." Yet, these remarks contradicted previous statements made by Khalifa during a visit to Turkey in June 10, three days after Turkey's parliament fast-tracked the approval of a 2016 agreement with Qatar that allowed troops to be deployed to a Turkish military base in the Gulf state. |
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