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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Steven V. Roberts

Trump and Erdogan are a lot alike

This file photo from Dec. 4, 2019, shows then-President Donald Trump (left) and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) at the NATO summit in London. (Peter Nicholls/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

ISTANBUL — When Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed a crowd of supporters here in Istanbul after winning a new five-year term as Turkey’s president, he was not wearing a red hat proclaiming “Make Turkey Great Again.” But he might as well have been. Erdogan looks and sounds a whole lot like Donald Trump.

Standing on top of a bus, the victor thundered, “The only winner today is Turkey,” and then added, “No one can look down on our nation.”

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