Turkey, Qatar sign a mutual defense agreement.
Turkey and Qatar signed a mutual defense agreement on Friday, pledging a unified response to any external armed attack against either country.
The deal, signed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Istanbul, provides for security consultations, joint military exercises, defense industry cooperation and personnel exchanges. The two sides also pledged to expand cooperation in energy, especially in the trade of liquefied natural gas.