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Turkey's Erdogan backs out of Glasgow climate summit

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan made the last-minute decision to skip the UN climate summit on Monday, saying British authorities failed to meet his security demands.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan scrapped plans to attend a landmark UN climate summit in Scotland Monday after his security conditions were not met, he told reporters. 

“These were the routine protocol standards that were always applied to us and to all other leaders on all our international visits. However, we were told at the last moment that these could not be met,” the Hurriyet Daily News quoted Erdogan as saying. 

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