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The question this book seeks to shed light on is, how and why have Turkey and Qatar developed quite a special relationship in the last three years? The chapter elaborates on the question and claims that Turkey and Qatar were in fact unlikely countries to form such a special relationship. However, as the chapter notes, driven by their own interests, the two countries had already aligned their foreign policies on many critical and controversial issues by summer of 2013. What pushed them further together was their isolation in the region for the support they seemed to be extending to the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
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As will be discussed in Chap. 5, Turkey and Qatar pursued similar foreign policies in the 2000s. For a short review, see Özgür Pala and Bülent Aras, “Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in the Turkish and Qatari Foreign Policy on the Arab Spring,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 17(3), pp.286–302.
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Otherwise stated, all $ signs refer to US dollars.
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These figures are from Turkish Statistical Institute, http://www.tuik.gov.tr
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Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Modern King in the Arab Spring,” The Atlantic, April 2013. Available at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/monarch-in-the-middle/309270/
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See the very enlightening book on the topic, Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen, Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post Oil Era, Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2011.
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Başkan, B. (2016). Introduction. In: Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51771-5_1
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