Erdogan's abrasive style unchecked by Turkish mine tragedy


  • World
  • Friday, 16 May 2014

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - For a man with ambitions to become Turkey's first popularly-elected president in a few months' time, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan appears to have done little to unite the country at a moment of national tragedy.

He was heckled and one of his aides photographed kicking a protester this week as he visited a mining community where at least 283 people died and scores remain trapped in the nation's worst ever mining disaster.

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