Turkey plans to deploy air and naval forces to Qatar

Turkey plans to deploy air and naval forces to Qatar besides to to ground troops which shall be already stationed within the nation, a Turkish diplomat has said. 

Fikret Ozer, Turkish ambassador to Qatar, on the opposite hand, declined to instruct a timeline for the pass. 

« In step with the settlement signed between Qatar and Turkey in 2014, all ground, air, and naval forces will seemingly be deployed to Qatar, » he suggested newshounds in Doha on Wednesday. 

Ankara and Doha would pick the « timeline of the construction of the critical infrastructure and when these forces will seemingly be deployed via talks », he said. 

The planned deployment is share of an settlement that also noticed Turkey organize a protection power camp in Qatar. 

The principle batch of Turkish troops arrived on the Tariq Bin Ziyad protection power heinous in 2015.

The camp, positioned south of Doha, is Turkey’s first such installation within the Heart East and can accommodate up to 5,000 infantrymen. 

Ozer also declined to expose the replacement of Turkish forces currently stationed in Qatar. 

« That records would be disclosed if our Qatari brothers agree to share that, » he said. « We’re company here; they are the host ». 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been a serious supporter of Doha since Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt severed diplomatic and trade kinfolk with Qatar on June 5.

The four Arab international locations accused Doha of supporting « terrorism » and fostering ties with their regional rival Iran. Qatar denies the accusations.

Rapidly after the diplomatic disaster erupted, Turkey’s parliament like a flash-tracked the Qatari-Turkish settlement in query alongside with another settlement that allows the Turkish protection power to practice Qatari security forces.

Ankara has also been attempting to mediate between the opposing facets to search out a resolution to the disaster.