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Erdogan Heads to Gulf Amid Crisis

23/07/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Newsroom, Erdogan Heads to Gulf Amid Crisis

Turkey's president begins a two-day visit to the Gulf to try to resolve crisis

Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is beginning a two-day visit to the Gulf to try to resolve the dispute between Qatar and its neighbours. Also, the US Congress has reached a bi-partisan agreement to limit President Trump's ability to lift sanctions against Russia, and India play England in the final of the women's cricket World Cup at Lord's in London.

(Photo: People in Istanbul hold Turkish and Qatari flags in support of Qatar.  Credit:  Reuters.)

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