"Such a policy would take Turkey nowhere," Halacoglu cautioned, arguing that Ankara's Middle East policy needs to be thoroughly overhauled.

Uzgel sees the Turkish military base in Qatar as a move aimed at securing the regime's survival in return for an unending inflow of Qatari funds into the Turkish economy, which suffers from a chronic current account deficit.

Both Turkey and Qatar underlined that the Turkish military deployment is aimed at contributing to the security of the Gulf region.

Other than land forces, naval vessels and fighter jets will also be deployed in the Turkish military base in Qatar.

It is also widely speculated that the Turkish government has dubious financial dealings with Qatar.

In the past ten years or so, huge amounts of foreign money in the Turkish Central Bank's reserves were designated as unregistered, or money with unknown origin.

Such unaccredited money was as much as over 10 billion dollars in 2017 and over 11 billion dollars last year, according to data by the Central Bank.

The claim was most recently cited by two CHP deputies in parliamentary questions submitted earlier in the month.

In his question, Aytug Atici drew attention to the serious increase in the past two years in the amount of unregistered money and demanded to know if Qatar may have been financing some terror groups via Turkey.

Turkey and Qatar have supported the same rebel groups in war-torn Syria.

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