Turkey has sent a warship to Qatar as part of security operations for the football World Cup set to begin next month, the Turkish defence ministry said Saturday. Turkey sent the TCG Burgazada ship to Doha from the port city of Izmir to participate in Operation World Cup Shield, a security operation taking place for the 20 November-18 December tournament. Turkey, a close regional ally of Qatar, approved a motion earlier this month to deploy troops to the Gulf country for six months. Fikri Isik, a ruling party legislator and former Turkish defence minister, said the deployment would involve 250 …