When NATO leaders left the two-day summit in Ankara with a parting gift, most of them did not bother to look inside the gift bags they were carrying.
In fact, it wasn’t until UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a handful of other heads of government first opened the lavish wooden boxes they received from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that they realised the black felt-lined burgundy chest carried a .357 Magnum revolver toted by the likes of Dirty Harry — or rather, its Turkish-made equivalent.
