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Erdogan and Netanyahu — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) speaks after the NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels on June 14, 2021, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a special session to vote on a new government that removed him from power, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2021. — YVES HERMAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (L) / EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images (R)

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