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Narendra Modi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan are two of a kind: strong leaders putting their democracies in peril — Quartz

Modi and Erdogan are two of a kind: strong leaders putting their democracies in peril

Ashok Swain and Bahar Baser
June 09, 2017 Quartz india

At the beginning of May, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s first post-referendum foreign visit was to meet India’s prime minister Narendra Modi. Despite Erdoğan’s controversial pro-Pakistan statement just before the trip, the pair was pictured sharing friendly hugs as the two vowed to tackle terrorism and extend economic relations.

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