The United Arab Emirates and Turkey traded barbs over relations with Israel, Kan 11 News reported on Sunday.
The UAE foreign minister, Anwar Gargash, responded to an interview given by an adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Yasin Aktay, to a Qatari newspaper in which he said normalization of relations amounted to "treason." Gargash said in response, "How do you seek to ban an act in which you are drowning yourself?"