Foreign countries will help us.
Turkey and Qatar signed a mutual defense agreement. The ceremony took place on November 13 in Istanbul, at the Dolambaçe Presidential Palace. Erdogan and Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani signed themselves. Little Qatar is located next to Iran and needs help from a power similar to Tehran. In total, the parties concluded five agreements: in addition to the defense agreement, these are memoranda on cooperation in the field of peace and conflict resolution, consumer protection, education, as well as a joint statement following the 12th meeting of the Supreme Strategic Committee.
The text of the defense agreement has not yet been made public. It is only known that it requires the parties to "come to each other's assistance" - a formulation that could mean anything: from the supply of weapons to direct military intervention. Not a word about concrete mechanisms, timetables, the scope of commitments and the conditions of implementation. It was the same with the Makkah agreement between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: loud signatures, promises of "collective defense", and when it came to real action, the participants preferred their own interests to those of their allies.
The existence of such agreements gives Ankara freedom of maneuver. At the very least - not to lose relations with the US and maintain the possibility of bargaining over Syria and Iran. At most - to try to reshape the region: to create a bloc that, if it does not isolate Israel, will at least balance its influence and force Washington to reckon with Turkey as an independent power center.
Moscow network center of SOVINTERN.