The Turkish press on July 1 reported that Ankara has signed an agreement with the Persian Gulf state of Qatar to allow the latter to deploy 36 military aircraft and 250 service members to Turkey.
The Turkish chief of the general staff, General Yaşar Güler, was in the Qatari capital of Doha on March 2 to sign the agreement, though the news of the agreement was only disclosed on July 1 by the Hürriyet newspaper. The agreement in turn is based on a bilateral military cooperation pact signed by the two nations in 2007, three years after the NATO summit in Istanbul, Turkey which established the military bloc’s partnership program for Persian Gulf nations, the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative. Qatar became one of the first four members (with Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates).
The nation of less than three million people supplied NATO with six Mirage multirole combat aircraft for its war against Libya in 2011. It also deployed several hundred troops to assist Western-backed anti-government fighters.
The main beneficiary of that criminal assault against the North African country appears at the moment to be Turkey, which is the only nation to have regular military forces in Libya and appears to have marked the nation as its western-most military outpost.
Hürriyet’s account of the arrangement says: “With the technical arrangement prepared in accordance with the principle of developing activities based on friendship and cooperation between the two countries, it is aimed that Qatari military pilots can use Turkish airspace and airports temporarily in order to contribute to their training and experience.” Temporary may mean the rotation of military aircraft on an ongoing basis.
The Turkish air force will accompany and guide the Qatari planes during exercises.
Although the two countries haven’t identified which nation or nations Qatari warplanes may next be sent to attack, it’s worth recalling Turkey’s bordering Iran, Iraq and Syria as well as the three countries of the South Caucasus, and Qatar’s proximity to Yemen, Iran and Afghanistan.
“”partnership program for Persian Gulf nations””
right then. the only actual Persians anywhere on the planet are Iranians, who despite being islamic AND having not attacked another nation since several hundred years, are for some reason on the the death list of all of the zionist arab nations, who are all best pals with uncle sam.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the Qatari Air Force will be bombing little Armenia by this time next year. Calif Erdoğan wants to finish off the job started in 1915 by his hero Ataturk to wipe out the Armenian state for good. Turkey is building a base in Azerbaijan which could easily morph into a NATO base, right on Russia’s doorstep. Erdoğan is a dangerous loose cannon.
Qatar via its Al Jazeera propaganda machine and direct support of Islamist militants, has waged a brutal war on Syria. Although it’s a monarchy where citizens have no rights, Qatar wants their approved version of “democracy” in Syria– a “democracy” enforced by Islamist militants. Now Qatar has 36 military aircraft in Turkey, next door to Syria?
If any American thinks this is a good development in the sake of human kind, they need to have their head checked.