Where does UAE's hostility towards Turkey come from?
The United Arab Emirates , a former British colony which gained independence in 1971, has taken an antagonistic stance towards Turkey since the 2010s, dismaying policymakers in Ankara.
Mohammed bin Zayed or MBZ, the de facto ruler of the UAE and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, which is the most powerful emirate in the monarchy, was a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood before he fell out with the movement.in 2007. According to the: “He worries about the appeal of Islamist politics to his population. As many as 80 percent of the soldiers in his forces would answer the call of ‘some holy man in Mecca,’ he once told American diplomats.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacts during a Kuala Lumpur Summit roundtable session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia December 19, 2019. The summit aimed to review the main issues of the Islamic world. Despite several interruptions to its democracy by military coups, Turkey has held elections in a multi-party system since 1950.
“They have difficulty to keep their populations under their control, using various suppression tactics against opposition groups and depending foreign support [particularly from the US],” Oktav said.
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