Turkey and Qatar: Love in Bloom
(WorldNews Turkey)

Opinion Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin (not pictured) following their talks in Moscow, Russia March 5, 2020. Photo: To match Special Report TURKEY-JUDGES/ Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS/. Few Qataris who fought the Ottoman colonialists to gain their independence in 1915 and end the 44-year-long Turkish rule in the peninsula would ever have imagined that their grandchildren would become Turkey`s closest strategic allies. Qatar, a tiny but extremely wealthy sheikdom, has a constitution based on sharia law, while Turkey`s constitution is strictly secular (officially, if not in practice). In Qatar, flogging and stoning...