Erdogan's government also took concrete steps to demonstrate its strong support to Doha in the wake of the crisis.

Turkey has delivered a large amount of aid of food and daily necessities to Qatar, whose citizens are under pressure from the sanctions by neighboring Arab countries.

Moreover, it has swiftly deployed a number of troops to its military base in Qatar to help the latter to deal with any possible security threat from its neighbors.

The Qatar-Turkey military cooperation has incensed the Saudi-led bloc, which purportedly demanded for closure of the Turkish base in Qatar, among the list of 13 demands put forward in late June.

Ankara's one-sided stance, though welcomed by Qatar, has damaged its credibility as an impartial mediator and raised doubts from the Saudi-led camp.

"Turkey has no chance of ending the conflict on its own, because it has adopted a pro-Qatar stance at the beginning," said Faruk Logoglu, a former diplomat from the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

He believed that Turkey, as a non-Arab country, should not take sides in an inter-Arab conflict.

ERDOGAN HAS TURKEY'S OWN INTERESTS TOP ON MIND

By launching mediation efforts, Erdogan apparently has Turkey's strategic interests top on mind, as Ankara has vast economic and strategic interests in the Gulf region.

"This visit is aimed for most at protecting Turkey's interest in this important region by telling these countries that despite that Ankara took sides with Qatar, it doesn't want hostile ties with others," said Bora Bayraktar of the Kultur University in Istanbul.

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