Bahrain’s foreign minister will on Saturday visit Turkey, announced the Turkish foreign ministry in a statement.
Shaikh
Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa will meet with his Turkish counterpart
Mevlut Cavusoglu, as well as Erdogan to discuss the "latest developments
in the region”, the ministry said in a statement.
The
announcement came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ratified
on Friday a bill approved by Turkish lawmakers to deploy troops to a
Turkish base in Qatar.
Bahrain joined Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and other states this week in
cutting ties with Qatar over emirate’s role in financing of extremist
groups and its ties to Iran.
The Arab countries closed
air, sea and land links with Qatar, barred the emirate’s planes from
their airspace and ordered Qatari citizens out within 14 days.
The
crisis escalated further after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain
released a list of 59 Qatari and Doha-based people and entities linked
to "terrorism”.
