Turkey enhancing relations with Qatar
Turkey, in parallel with its foreign policies for the past decade has been trying to be actively involved in the ever so complex Middle East politics, in particular. As Turkish Foreign Minister has often put it, Turkey wants to secure its place among major players in the region.
Within this scope Turkish PM has also paid plenty of visits to the countries in the region to improve relations with concerned countries.
Qatar has certainly been among those countries and in fact Mr. Erdoğan is on a visit to this country at the moment. Accordingly, Turkish PM has had the opportunity to discuss regional issues with Qatari officials in his one-day visit to the country.
The meeting took place yesterday and Erdoğan accompanied with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Energy Minister Taner Yıldız first met Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
Parties discussed regional issues including the Syrian crisis, Israel-Palestine issue and the latest developments in Northern Africa.
Another topic of the meeting was how to increase the possibilities for cooperation in the economy, culture, energy and trade for better political dialogue between the countries.
The Turkish PM is expected to return to Ankara today.
29.01.2013
SOURCE: MEDIA
