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Turkey´s Erdogan absent from Mecca Islamic summit
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was notably absent from a key summit of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Saudi holy city of Makkah on Friday.
By AFP
Published June 01, 2019
MAKKAH: Turkey´s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was notably absent from a key summit of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on Friday, an AFP photographer said.
Turkey, a regional heavyweight, was instead represented by its Foreign Minister Mouloud Zhaoshoglu.
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Erdogan´s visit would have been his first to the kingdom since the brutal murder last October of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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