The Arab states accuse Qatar, a gas-rich emirate at the Saudi border, of supporting extremism.
Tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East.
Commenting on the criticism against Turkey for providing food supplies and military support to Qatar, Erdogan said: "Our friends in the Gulf were not bothered by the USA base in Qatar but why are they concerned about a Turkish base". "In all battlefields, there are adversaries", he told CNN.
In a call with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, U.S. President Donald Trump offered to mediate the country's diplomatic crisis with its neighbors.
The completely divergent stances echoed the diplomatic chaos we saw earlier this week when the president departed sharply from the lines that Tillerson and the United States ambassador to Qatar took in the immediate aftermath of the boycott. It is clear to me, based on these conversations, that the elements of a solution are available.
Anxious residents have responded to the crisis by emptying grocery stores in the Qatari capital, Doha, as Saudi Arabia has blocked trucks carrying food from entering the country across its only land border.
He bemoaned the "humanitarian consequences" of the Gulf states' blockade of Qatar, including food shortages and families being forcibly separated.
Germany has called for diplomatic efforts to resolve a growing crisis over Qatar, which is accused by four Arab neighbours of funding terrorism.
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Notably, while he criticized Qatar, he thanked Saudi Arabia.
The legislation, which also foresees cooperation in military training, was rapidly passed in parliament on Wednesday, a day after Erdogan openly sided with Qatar and criticized other Gulf countries' moves to isolate it.
"Part of Russia's activity is to drive a wedge between the USA and our allies, writ large", said CBS News security contributor Frank Cilluffo, adding that the US can not let the incident undermine its relationship with Qatar, which hosts the largest American military base in the Middle East.
The list, however, contains at least two names already designated internationally as terrorist financiers, and against whom Qatar took action, according to a previous US Department of State report.
Kuwait's emir is working to mediate the Gulf crisis around Qatar, which is home to a major US military base and the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Qatar has denied the allegations that it sponsors terrorism.
UAE foreign affairs minister Anwar Gargash said they and their allies were seeking to "straighten an evil that has targeted the region".
Two weeks after an alleged cyber attack on Qatar's state news agency resulted in the publishing of a fake news story, the Qatari-funded broadcasting company Al-Jazeera claims that the company's "websites and digital platforms" are being targeted in "systematic and continual hacking attempts".
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