Outline of Qatar

Qatar offers "significant opportunities" to Turkish companies in several sectors, including services, logistics, manufacturing and information technologies, said the chief executive officer of the Investment Promotion Agency of Qatar. 

,,Qatar has the will and interest to invest in the Bulgarian transport infrastructure, but our country needs to prepare and present its investment projects convincingly. Without specific technical parameters, financial analyzes, and deadlines, we can not attract large international investors.''

,,Do not hesitate to be more aggressive to invest in Bulgaria'', President Rumen Radev said to the representatives of Qatar at the Doha-Qatar-Bulgarian Business Forum.
    He noted the intense political dialogue between Bulgaria and the State of Qatar.
   ,,Our mission is to turn political cooperation into business cooperation with visible results'', Radev pointed out.

Qatar, isolated by its neighbors in a diplomatic crisis, on Aug. 9 introduced a visa-free entry program for 80 nationalities to stimulate air transport and tourism.

"The visa exemption scheme will make Qatar the most open country in the region," tourism department official Hassan al-Ibrahim told a news conference in Doha.

'Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East' by Birol Başkan (Palgrave, 147 pages, £38)

Turkish products are meeting high demand in stores across Qatar, which is facing an economic blockade from fellow Arab countries, as Iran is also sending food to Doha amid concerns of shortage.

Turkish exporters are ready to meet demand for food and water from Qatar, the head of Turkey's main exporting trade body told Reuters on June 7, allowing the Gulf state to stave off possible shortages after its biggest suppliers cut ties.