Turkey and Qatar signed a series of agreements on Thursday ranging from trade facilitation to military and technical cooperation during Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani’s visit to President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.

Erdogan and al-Thani were co-chairing the Turkey-Qatar High Strategic Committee meeting.

Al-Thani’s visit, focused on investment and trade, comes after Doha said at the weekend it had told Hamas and Israel it would stall efforts to mediate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal until they show willingness and seriousness.

Turkey, which fiercely criticized Israel over its offensives in Gaza and Lebanon, does not deem the Palestinian group Hamas a terrorist group, and some of its political officials regularly visit Turkey.