UAE: Arabs ‘Won’t be Led by Ankara’ – As Retweet Further Divides Regional Relations

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This latest diplomatic spat between newly formed Turkey-Qatar-Iran alliance and the US-backed Saudi-UAE-Israel (tentatively with Egypt on board) axis power bloc – is indicative of where some of the regional fault lines are at present.

You can be sure that the US, Israel and Britain will work to exploit these differences in order to gain whatever economic and geopolitical advantage they can from the discord.

Reuters reports…

A senior UAE diplomat said Wednesday the Arab world would not be led by Turkey.

The statement is seen as the Gulf state’s first comment on Ankara since a quarrel broke out last week over a retweet by the Emirati FM that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called an insult.

Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs of the United Arab Emirates, said there was a need for Arab countries to rally around the “Arab axis” of Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

“The Arab world will not be led by Tehran or Ankara,” he wrote on his Twitter page.

Last week, Turkey summoned the charge d’affaires at the UAE embassy in Ankara, after UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahayan shared a tweet that accused Turkish troops of looting the holy city of Medina a century ago.

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