On November 24, Uae Crown Prince Mohammed traveled to Turkey to sign a series of economic and financial agreements with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. That signing ceremony was notable because Turkey and the UNITED Arab Emirates have been at odds on a variety of issues since the Arab Spring protests began and the two countries found themselves on opposite sides of the dividing line in the region. Before the latest meeting, the UAE crown prince had not set foot in Turkey in nearly a decade and saw Mr Erdogan's support for groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat to the family-ruled dynastic regimes prevalent in the Gulf.