{"id":7626,"date":"2021-12-28T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T09:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T09:17:03","slug":"turkish-qatari-companies-to-jointly-run-5-airports-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/12\/turkish-qatari-companies-to-jointly-run-5-airports-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish, Qatari companies to jointly run 5 airports in\u00a0Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu has said on that Turkish and Qatari companies signed a deal\u00a0to jointly run five airports in\u00a0Afghanistan, including Kabul\u00a0airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Turkish delegation of experts will first travel to Doha on late Dec. 20 and then to Afghanistan to discuss the matter of operating Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, and then they will submit a proposal to the interim Afghan government, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu said, speaking at a joint news conference with his Malaysian counterpart, Dato\u2019 Sri Saifuddin Abdullah, reported Hurriyet daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you know, a Turkish company and a Qatari company signed a memorandum of understanding for the joint operation of not only Kabul but also five airports in Afghanistan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will operate the airports jointly with\u00a0Qatar\u00a0if conditions are favorable,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u00a0has been holding talks on Kabul airport with Qatar to keep it operational following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in August.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, we have given the messages directly to the Taliban, as being [a part of] the Islamic world. It is not a prerequisite like the Westerners, but we shared what should have been brotherly because we are brothers of the Afghan people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Stating that the people of Afghanistan live under difficult conditions, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu pointed out that the Islamic world should take steps in this regard.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu on Dec. 19 met with acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Islamabad.<\/p>\n

After capturing the capital Kabul on Aug. 15, the Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan and are trying to establish their Islamic rule, which was removed by U.S.-led foreign forces in 2001.<\/p>\n

Turkey is pressing on the Taliban to establish an inclusive government with the participation of former Afghan leaders who have a certain level of credibility in the international arena.<\/p>\n

Turkey was present in Afghanistan with non-combat troops under the NATO missions since late 2001. The Turkish troops, who were tasked to protect and operate the International Hamid Karzai Airport since 2015, returned home after the Taliban said it would not accept the presence of any foreign soldiers on Afghan lands.<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu has said on that Turkish and Qatari companies signed a deal\u00a0to jointly run five airports in\u00a0Afghanistan, including Kabul\u00a0airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,194,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,84,172,447],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-world","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-turkey","tag-qatar","tag-airport"],"views":489,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}