Turkey and Yemen have very long and deep historical ties, spanned from the Ottoman Empire to the modern era.

After a number of conflicts between the Turks and Zaydis, the Ottomans effectively conquered Yemen and put it into control.

[7] Nonetheless, war continued when Al-Mu'ayyad Muhammad, who expelled the Turks, led an army to conquer Mecca.

[9] However, widespread corruption and ongoing rebellion against the Turks by Yemeni tribes had costed economic drains for the Ottoman Empire.

[14] In October 2019, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu criticized the Saudi intervention in Yemen, drawing a rebuke from the Yemeni government, which described their remarks as "provocative".