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Erdogan: I don't care if you call me a dictator
By EUobserver
"I don't care if they call me dictator or whatever else ... What matters is what my people call me," Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech when receiving an honorary doctorate in Istanbul Sunday. Leaders of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were arrested on Friday. Turkey's EU Minister Omer Celik has called European ambassadors to a meeting in Ankara to brief them on the latest developments.