Ambassador Mithat Rende is the former Turkish ambassador to Qatar and former chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Executive Committee. This article is a revised and updated version of two op-eds: Mithat Rende, “The energy dimension of the Gulf Crisis: The Saudi perspective,” Hürriyet Daily News, 26 June 2017 and Mithat Rende, “The energy dimension of the Gulf Crisis: The Qatari perspective,” Hürriyet Daily News, 27 June 2017.