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In recent years, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman – have increased their military ties with Turkey.
The Turkey-Qatar alliance in particular has grown robust over the past decade, culminating in the establishment of a 2014 defence pact, the deployment of Turkish troops in Doha during the 2017 GCC crisis, and the 2019 inauguration of a joint command headquarters at Khalid Bin Al Walid Military Camp.
As several GCC nations have been recalibrating their defence…