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Turkish President Gifts NATO Leaders Engraved Revolvers with Live Ammunition

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During a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented leaders with an unusual gift: a personalized Magnum revolver along with six live bullets. The recipients, including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar, expressed surprise and puzzlement over the logistics and implications of receiving such a weapon. The revolvers were engraved with each leader's name and accompanied by a note exempting them from export controls, leading to logistical challenges for the delegations' security teams. AI

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Turkish President Gifts NATO Leaders Engraved Revolvers with Live Ammunition

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Agence France-Presse ·

    Turkish president’s ‘unusual’ gift to Nato leaders: 1 revolver, 6 bullets

    What does a world leader do with a gun and six bullets? That was the conundrum Nato leaders faced after the Turkish president offered them each a revolver after the Ankara summit. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was the first on Wednesday to mention the highly unusual gift pr…

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