Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan retweeted a post on Twitter this week, in which a user claimed Fahreddin Pasha — Medina governor from 1916 to 1919 — was a thief. It means you do not know this country, you do not know Erdogan, you do not know about Erdogan’s ancestors,” he thundered. “When Fahreddin Pasha was protecting Medina, hey you wretched slandering us, where were your ancestors?” Erdogan retorted during a speech in Ankara. The UAE outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terror” group in 2014. Turkish pro-government newspapers also routinely allude to UAE involvement in last year’s attempted coup against Erdogan.

Source: The Express Tribune December 20, 2017 13:41 UTC