With Eye on Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Middle East Players are Reshuffling Their Cards
News 18The geopolitical deck of cards in the Middle East is being shuffled once again. Sheikh Tahnoun’s visit to Ankara was the first high-level contact between UAE and Turkey since April 2016 when Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu visited Abu Dhabi in an unsuccessful attempt to build bridges. The two countries had found themselves on opposite sides of the ‘Arab Spring’, with Turkey showing a marked preference for the rise of Islamist movements like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. For the best part of the last decade, Turkey and Qatar preferred to throw their weight behind ‘Islamist’ forces while Abu Dhabi stood behind the more secular proxies like Gen. Khalifa Haftar in Libya. Gargash called Sheikh Tahnoun’s meeting with President Erdoğan ‘historic and positive’ while Erdoğan told the press that he had discussed specific areas where UAE could invest in Turkey.
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