Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will refuse the Nobel Peace Prize if it awarded, AA reported.
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The journalist asked the Turkish leader what he would do if he was awarded a similar award. The president said that he would refuse it. According to Erdogan, the Nobel Committee has exhausted itself and is a politically motivated and ideological organization.
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Earlier, Ankara opposed the presentation of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Austrian writer Peter Handke, who stated that he regarded the events in Srebrenica as a conflict between two fraternal peoples. Turkey is among the countries that boycotted the Handke award ceremony.
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H/T News.Am
Turkey’s Erdogan To Decline Nobel Peace Prize If Awarded.
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