Turkish presidential spokesperson Ambassador Ibrahim Kalin said that the sanctions imposed on Qatar do not contribute to solving the current crisis. Qatar rejects the charge of supporting terrorism and demands concrete evidence, as any country confronted with such accusations would, Kalin said in a column published in the Turkish English newspaper Daily Sabah. Qatari officials take the claim seriously but have yet to receive any hard evidence connecting it with any terrorist organisation in the Gulf region, Syria or elsewhere, he added.
Kalin praised the Emir of Kuwait’s significant role to reduce tensions and resolve the crisis, stressing Turkey’s readiness to help, referring in this regard to the efforts being exerted by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who held numerous phone calls with regional leaders to diffuse tensions and find a peaceful and amicable solution to the problem.
By taking this stance, Turkey has no intentions of interfering in the internal affairs of any country. Despite claims by some propagandists who seek to take advantage of the crisis in order to damage Turkish-Arab relations, all Turkey wants to see is a peaceful resolution of this crisis; he said. He warned that there are parties preparing the ground to ignite the flame of sedition in the region between Arabs and Turks through the exploitation of the current crisis, calling for joint co-operation to thwart these conspiracies that have been going on for years.
Turks and Arabs are brothers and sisters, friends and allies, neighbours and partners, and must work together for a more secure and brighter future of the Arab and Islamic world, he added.
