Oil, not Qatar crisis, damaging Turkey-Gulf economic ties:
"When four Arab states launched an economic blockade against Qatar in June, threatening food and construction supplies to the gas-rich state, Turkey stepped in.
Ankara helped airlift food supplies to ward off serious shortages in its close ally, and then rushed ahead with plans to deploy troops at a military base in the isolated Gulf state at a time when many Qataris feared invasion.
The intervention prompted widespread anger among many Saudis and Emiratis — the leaders of the quartet that includes Egypt and Bahrain — who bitterly rejected an alleged return to “Ottoman expansionism” in the Gulf."
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