How many more times will the Gulf countries be bitten from the same snake's hole?

It is obvious that the sanctions that three Gulf countries and Egypt want to impose on Qatar point to a dangerous course in the region in which reason, common sense and moderation are rapidly being abandoned. The parties need to analyze well what they want in this matter and to calculate very well what kind of effects such steps may have on the future of the region.

Though we say parties, as we have said before on this matter, there is an asymmetrical balance between the parties. What we have is a sanction that several countries, having come together, want to impose on one country. No one has yet been able to understand why these four countries came together and are carrying out these measures against Qatar.

In the face of these steps, which could mean ending a country's sovereignty out of the blue, Turkey, which has very good relations with both Qatar and Saudi Arabia, showed the reaction it needed to show at the first moment, and opposed such an attempt at extrajudicial execution by a few of the other members against a member country of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

In response to this initiative by Turkey, some people who do not know their place dared to ask by what right Turkey was meddling in a problem among the Gulf countries themselves.

First, the problem is not one confined only to the Gulf countries; it affects everyone.

Second, those who are bothered by Turkey, which is not a Gulf country, do not hesitate to take the words of the US, which comes from 5,000 miles away, as a revelation and a command.

Third, Egypt is among these four countries, and it is not a Gulf country. And what do Mauritania, Yemen and the other African countries that were pressed into cutting their relations with Qatar have to do with the Gulf? Is it only Turkey, which wishes well for all the parties, which wants peace rather than war, a solution rather than a crisis, dialogue rather than an embargo, that bothers them?

Turkey, of course, started from the thesis that if there are parties and there is a dispute among them, these should be resolved through dialogue. In return, some chose to deepen the crisis further by saying that this was not neutrality but siding with Qatar, that it meant standing with Qatar against the other countries.

The truth is that an "extrajudicial execution" has been carried out against Qatar; that is a fact. By standing against this case, Turkey first stood against a wrong that cannot be redressed, and then honestly invited those who took this action against Qatar to set out their reasons.

If it is thought that "we can do whatever wrong we want, do whatever our power allows, and no one can interfere with us," we need to say that such a thing suits neither the justice of Islam nor, for all its distortions, today's world order.

Look, in response to Trump's words, which most emboldened the group against Qatar, even the US began to make the opposite statements right after the crisis reached this depth. Most recently, State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said that, as time has passed since the start of the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its neighbors, doubts about the actions of Saudi Arabia and the UAE have grown even further. Continuing, Nauert said, "At this point, we are faced with a very simple question: were the steps they took really based on concerns over Qatar's alleged support for terrorism, or on long-standing grievances among the Gulf countries?", and even said that the coalition against Qatar lacked credibility.

Indeed, the reasons given by the group, which first began the sanctions against Qatar and then, in the face of the pressures that followed, explained the grounds of this embargo, not only lack any credibility but are of a kind that will put the whole group, above all Saudi Arabia, in a much more difficult position. It is exactly like the US, which gave Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait, taking on the role of savior against that occupation right after the occupation was carried out. How many more times will these Arab countries be bitten from the same snake's hole?

When we say that this course will drag the Arab world into great danger, we are not only defending Qatar. While all these countries wrestle with this problem, what is happening in Syria, in Libya, in Yemen, in Iraq goes on happening, and Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the other Gulf countries, which should be in natural cooperation in these countries, exhaust their energies on this problem. While they exhaust their energies on this problem, terrorist organizations and the forces behind them advance in the region, and an atmosphere of chaos in which the region will be torn to pieces and no country will be governable settles in thoroughly. There is great benefit in everyone coming to their senses and starting to think about what risks this atmosphere of chaos holds, for whom, and what its outcome will be.

The demands put forward by the coalition against Qatar finally became clear as of yesterday. The earlier demands and the terrorist list that was given were a complete fiasco, and the UN had already announced that it would not take them into account. It was a list prepared so arbitrarily that it went as far as branding the 91-year-old great Islamic scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi a terrorist, and one that in the end would put those who prepared it in a very difficult position.

The demands published yesterday, for their part, are a disappointing list that totally dashed the expectation that there might perhaps be a return to reason and common sense. The same terror accusations are repeated once again without any evidence being shown, and it is a list like a surrender document dictated by an army that has won a war to a defeated army. From where the courage and the right to present this list come is another matter. Among its demands are the closure of Al Jazeera, a broadcaster that is the pride of the Islamic world, and the closure of Turkey's military base.

That the UAE, which right now interferes in the affairs of all countries everywhere in the Islamic world, Turkey included, and which supports coup processes there with its affiliated media, money, weapons and agents, calls on Qatar to give up interfering in other countries' internal affairs is a perfect example of black humor.

Let us note here the audacity of the same UAE, which is plain as day to be a supporter, with its media and its money, of the Gezi incident, of the 17-25 December coup attempt, of the 15 July FETÖ coup and of all the anti-democracy movements in Turkey, in demanding the closure of Turkey's base in Qatar.

Wherever there is instability, a coup or terror in the Islamic world today, the same audacity is involved, and, what is more, it shamelessly regards itself as authorized in the definition and elimination of terror.

The Islamic world must now, by all means, confront this audacity that disregards law and justice.