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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is welcomed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara for twice-delayed talks aimed at ironing out past differences between the two neighbours and trying to halt the spread of the Israel-Hamas war. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a visit to Germany, says he sees all faiths as equal and rejects suggestions that his attacks on Israel have anti-Semitic undertones. "If there was a struggle against anti-Semitism, I was the first leader in the world to lead that struggle," Erdogan says during a joint media appearance with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. SOUNDBITE
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashes out at Israel during a visit to Germany, saying that attacks on children and hospitals had no place in the Jewish holy book. "Shooting hospitals, killing children... These things are not in the Torah, you cannot do that," Erdogan says during a joint media appearance with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. SOUNDBITE
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says the West is staging "provocations" against Russia. Erdogan has maintained good working relations with Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, while trying to stay neutral in the conflict. Turkey has not joined the programme of Western sanctions against Russia and signed an economic agreement with Moscow earlier this month, but has also been supplying Ukraine with weapons and combat drones. SOUNDBITE
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, and President of Turkey Recep Erdogan begin a meeting in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, as Russia's invasion of its pro-Western neighbour continues. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hold a bilateral meeting at the Potocki Palace in Lviv during Erdogan's one-day working visit to Ukraine ahead of the two leaders' trilateral meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. IMAGES