...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...has mobilized to come to the aid of its ally
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, as reflected in Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani's and other Qatari officials' expressions of support for it, and in an economic aid package totaling $15 billion. Qatar's mobilization is also expressed in articles and op-eds in the Qatari press that emphasize the warm relations and the alliance between the two countries and note that they have always helped each other. The articles in the Qatari press stated that Qatar was the first to extend help to Turkey in the current crisis, just as Turkey had stood by Qatar during the Gulf crisis and is still supporting it in light of the Saudi, UAE, Bahraini, and Egyptian boycott against Qatar that has continued for over a year. They also harshly criticized the U.S. and reiterated Turkey's argument that the economic sanctions against it were part of a U.S. conspiracy, after the U.S. failed to harm Turkey with the 2016 coup attempt. Other articles praised
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...for his valor in standing up to the U.S., and criticized the other Arab countries for failing to stand alongside him, and for even rejoicing in Turkey's troubles.