Turkey crisis is new blow to Saudi regional ambitions
The failed military coup is another nail in the coffin for Riyadh's efforts to build a Sunni regional alliance
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- Divisions over political Islam
- Strategic rapprochement
- Internal GCC cohesion
- New Saudi foreign policy approach
- Islamic Military Alliance
- Qatar and the UAE
- Gulf support vs Western criticism
- Implications for Gulf regional policy
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_350.jpg "Saudi King Salman bin Abdelaziz and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul (Reuters/Murad Sezer)")