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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faced noisy protests on Thursday as he confronted critics in Washington, defending his media crackdown and accusing the West of turning a blind eye to Kurdish violence.

The White House said that US President Barack Obama had met Erdogan on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in the US capital, but the absence of a formal presidential meeting between the pair appeared to highlight the simmering diplomatic tensions between the NATO allies with sharply differing views over the war in Syria.
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