Turkey's Erdogan backs out of Glasgow climate summit
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan made the last-minute decision to skip the UN climate summit on Monday, saying British authorities failed to meet his security demands.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan scrapped plans to attend a landmark UN climate summit in Scotland Monday after his security conditions were not met, he told reporters.
“These were the routine protocol standards that were always applied to us and to all other leaders on all our international visits. However, we were told at the last moment that these could not be met,” the Hurriyet Daily News quoted Erdogan as saying.
“We later learned that the standards in our rejected request could exceptionally be provided for another country. It didn’t conform to diplomatic customs, either. We could not accept this,” he said, declining to name the other country.
A senior Turkish official clarified to Reuters that the security dispute partly involved how many vehicles Turkey would bring.
