Emir Sheikh Tamim: Turkish relations


Issue 1016 - 03 Jun 2016 | 1 minute read

As well as attending the opening session of the annual Qatar Forum, where he did not speak (see GSN view), Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani held an end-May telephone call with new Turkish premier Binali Yildirim, who was also congratulated on his appointment by other members of the Qatari leadership. A month earlier Turkey’s first foreign military base in the Middle East opened in Qatar and Yildirim’s predecessor Ahmet Davutoglu was in Doha. Davutoglu was seen by some as the chief architect of a new world order with Turkey at its centre.

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