http://www.janes.com/article/70199/turkey-to-deploy-up-to-600-troops-at-military-base-in-qatar
09 May 2017
“ there are currently 94 Turkish personnel there”
Base was established to counter Iran.
Obama’s dealings with Iran made Qatar, and all the GCC, feel unsure of US support against Iran.
Sounds like the next step is to expel Turkey from NATO. If Turkish troops go to Qatar and are attacked, does NATO have an obligation to Turkey?
That makes no sense. Don’t believe the official explanations when they are illogical. There is already a joint US/Qatari airbase in Qatar. US forces are there at all times. A tiny Turkish presence is not needed to deter an attack from Iran, whom Qatar has a good relationship anyway.
The reason for the Turkish presence has always been for a situation like now. Turkey’s Muslim Brotherhood government was supported by Qatar and now they are supporting Qatar against anti-MB forces.
You are also buying into a larger false narrative that seeks to shift blame for Sunni Arabs countries’ mistakes(like supporting ISIS and al-Qaeda) to the US for not attacking Iran for them. This is basically a Sunni jihadist narrative of world affairs that seeks to shift blame to non-Sunnis for Sunni terrorism, extremism, intolerance etc. It’s basically a “he a good boy, he didn’t do nothing” line applied to the Middle East. The establishment is using this narrative to justify support for brutal, totalitarian Sunni dictatorships that persecute Christians so that they can sell weapons to them.