The EU and Turkey have sought to defuse tensions amid a meeting in China between Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and top EU officials.
EU Council chief Donald Tusk on Monday (5 September), before his return flight, tweeted a picture of himself sitting with Erdogan and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.
The men had met in the margins of the China G20 summit, with Juncker’s spokesman also posting optimistic messages on social media.
An EU source told th...
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