Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t mince his words at this month’s opening of parliament. In his first assertion of a claim to a lost non-Turkic part of the Ottoman Empire, Mr Erdogan declared that Jerusalem is Turkish.

The Battle for Jerusalem: Turkey’s Erdogan stakes his claim

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The Battle for Jerusalem: Turkey’s Erdogan stakes his claim