Give up on Olympics bid for Istanbul: Erdoğan jokingly asks Japanese counterpart
ANKARA – Anatolia News Agency
While Turkey and Japan took their economic partnership up a gear with a nuclear deal worth $22 billion dollars, the heated race between Istanbul and Tokyo to host the 2020 Olympics was also on the front burner May 3, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in Ankara.
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