Visiting brethren
Jun 5th 2013, 23:14 by E.B. | TUNIS
WHILE his citizens demonstrated on the streets, Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, took off on June 3rd for a planned visit, along with a delegation of 200 Turkish business people, to Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Mr Erdogan, pictured above arriving in Morocco, was keen to appear cool amid the turmoil back home, but the protests cast a pall over his north African jaunt.
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