ISTANBUL: Turkiye and Qatar signed a mutual defense agreement on Friday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s office said, after ‌the ‌president met ‌the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in Istanbul. “President Erdogan stated that we would continue ‌working together to ‌prevent the ‌resurgence of ‌war in the Gulf region and establish a ‌basis for dialogue and achieve peace,” the presidency said in a statement on X, which did not provide details on the defense accord.