15-05-2018 22:23 via theguardian.com

Erdoğan ends UK state visit by calling jailed journalists 'terrorists'

Turkish president ignores call from Theresa May to not lose sight of defending democracyTurkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has ended his three-day state visit to the UK by insisting that all the journalists locked in Turkish jails were terrorist criminals, ignoring a warning from Theresa May not to lose sight of democratic values as he sought to defend his country from “the extraordinary pressures of a failed coup and Kurdish terrorism”.At a press conference in Down
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