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Blinken arrives in Turkey on first leg of Middle East tour
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Friday, kicking off his fourth tour of the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war broke out three months ago. FRANCE 24’s Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more.
