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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 21766099" data-attributes="member: 218596">Turkish parliament approves legislation allowing Turkish troops to be deployed in Qatar.<img src="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/6/7/da6097fd9cf04106b18780b58a50591f_18.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Turkish officials say decision will be brought forward due to worsening Gulf diplomatic rift Turkey's parliament has approved a legislation allowing its troops to be deployed to a Turkish military base in Qatar.The bill, first drafted in May, passed with 240 votes in favour,  largely with support from the ruling AK Party and nationalist opposition  MHP.Wednesday's decision is an apparent support for Qatar as it faces  diplomatic and trade isolation from some of the biggest Middle Eastern  powers.Turkey is a key ally of Qatar and is setting up a military base in  the country which also hosts the largest US air base in the Middle East.Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain  severed relations with Qatar and closed their airspace to commercial  flights on Monday, accusing it with financing extremist groups.Qatar vehemently denies the accusations. It is the worst split between powerful Arab states in decades.Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has criticised the Arab states'  move, saying isolating Qatar and imposing sanctions will not resolve any  problems and adding that Ankara will do everything in its power to help  end the crisis.Turkey has maintained good relations with Qatar as well as several of its Gulf Arab neighbours.Turkey set up a military base in Qatar, its first such installation  in the Middle East, as part of an agreement signed in 2014. In 2016  Ahmet Davutoglu, then Turkish prime minister, visited the base where 150  troops have already been stationed, the Turkish daily Hurriyet  reported.In an interview with Reuters in late 2015, Ahmet Demirok, Turkey's  ambassador to Qatar at the time, said 3,000 ground troops would  eventually be deployed at the base, planned to serve primarily as a  venue for joint training exercises.</blockquote>

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