Qatar, Turkey, Iran, and Syria

December 21, 2019 | Jerusalem Post

Turkey-Iran-Qatar-Malaysia alliance to seek own gold trade standard

November 25, 2019 | Agence France-Presse

Turkey’s Erdogan in Qatar on first Arab trip since Syria campaign

November 16, 2017 | Jerusalem Post

Time for Trump to hold Qatar accountable for funding terrorism

August 24, 2017 | The New York Times

Qatar Restores Full Relations With Iran, Deepening Gulf Feud

July 6, 2017 | Haaretz

The Qatar-Iran Gas Field Behind the Diplomatic War in the Middle East

June 13, 2017

Chairman Royce’s Remarks on Qatar’s Support for Hamas

May 22, 2017 | Foreign Policy

Qatar Needs to Do Its Part

May 11, 2017 | Newsweek Middle East

By Hosting Hamas, Qatar is Whitewashing Terror

December 16, 2015 | Reuters

Turkey to set up Qatar military base to face ‘common enemies’

November 12, 2015 | Eurasia Review

Turkey And Qatar: Close Allies, Sharing A Doomed Syria Policy

August 2, 2013

Congressional Letter to Ambassador Al-Rumaihi

October 23, 2012 | The New York Times

Qatar’s Emir Visits Gaza, Pledging $400 Million to Hamas

All of these countries seem to suggest that they are in need of a way to get around trade sanctions imposed by others.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Qatar Monday on his first official trip to an Arab country since Ankara’s forces intervened in northeast Syria last month against Kurdish fighters.

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Meanwhile, Qatar is growing closer to Iran, beyond the positive media coverage it gives that nation through the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera network, and has been establishing energy, trade and security ties with a country whose officials frequently espouse the destruction of Israel.

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Qatar restored full diplomatic relations with Iran on Thursday, the latest volley in an 11-week-old geopolitical feud that has set the tiny yet fabulously wealthy Persian Gulf nation against its neighbors and rattled a previously placid part of the Middle East.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced that it was sending its ambassador back to Tehran after a 20-month hiatus that started in January 2016, when Qatar broke off relations after attacks on two Saudi diplomatic facilities in Iran.

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In April 2017, Qatar lifted a self-imposed ban on developing the world’s biggest natural gas field, which it is shares ownership with Iran, in an attempt to stave off an expected rise in competition.

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Turkey will establish a military base in Qatar as part of a defence agreement aimed at helping them confront “common enemies,” Turkey’s ambassador to Qatar said on Wednesday.

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In recent years, Turkey and Qatar have found much common ground on a host of foreign policy issues. Both Ankara and Doha have sponsored a variety of Sunni Islamist groups, seen as conduits for their geopolitical influence in the fluid Middle East.

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