{"id":43441,"date":"2019-09-23T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43441"},"modified":"2019-09-23T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T06:55:35","slug":"qatar-turkey-discuss-stronger-military-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43441","title":{"rendered":"Qatar, Turkey Discuss Stronger Military Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DOHA, Sept 23 (NNN-QNA) &#8211; Qatar and Turkey, on Sunday, discussed means to boost military and defence relations, the Qatari Ministry of Defence said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The two sides took up bilateral cooperation in the military sphere, during a meeting between Qatari Minister of State for Defence Affairs, Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah and Turkish Chief of General Staff, Yasar Guler, who is currently on a visit to Doha.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatari-Turkish relations have seen a strong push in all fields and the two sides have become close allies in the political, economic and security domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doha has been a supporter of Ankara during a failed coup in 2016, and propped up Turkey&#8217;s economy with 15 billion U.S. dollars, after the local currency, lira depreciated sharply because of sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Turkey, over its detention of an American pastor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar has also received several batches of Turkish troops, arriving at the Al Udeid Air Base, after the Turkish parliament approved a draft law, allowing the government to deploy troops on Qatari soil.&#8211; NNN-QNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA, Sept 23 (NNN-QNA) &#8211; Qatar and Turkey, on Sunday, discussed means to boost military and defence relations, the Qatari Ministry of Defence said. &#8220;The two sides took up bilateral cooperation in the military sphere, during a meeting between Qatari Minister of State for Defence Affairs, Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah and Turkish Chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}