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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Monday at the Presidential Complex in Ankara.

Turkish-Qatari relations reached new heights after a handful of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia abruptly severed diplomatic relations with Qatar and imposed a blockade on the emirate, accusing it of supporting terrorism.

Lately, UAE accused Qatar fighter jets of "intercepting" two Emirati passenger planes en route to Bahrain.  

Qatar has strongly denied the claims which follow complaints to the UN from Doha that Emirati fighter jets entered its air space in December and January.

Erdogan has strongly denounced the sanctions against Doha and sent cargo ships laden with food to the besieged emirate when Saudi Arabia closed Qatar's only land borders and other Gulf states ended flights and shipping routes to the country.

Turkey has been keen to retain cordial ties with Saudi Arabia, although its relationship with the UAE has been more rocky.

A highly publicised spat between the two countries erupted last month after UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan retweeted a post critical of the former Ottoman rulers of the region.

Ankara in response renamed the street in the Turkish capital where the UAE embassy is located after the Ottoman governor of the time.