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In refusing to take a question from a CNN reporter, Trump put him “in his place,” Turkish President Erdogan, whose country jails more journalists than any other, said on Thursday.
“No, I’m not going to give you a question,” Trump yelled at CNN's Jim Acosta. “I’m not going to give you a question.”
“You are fake news,” he announced, having spent much of his earlier time during the conference addressing a CNN report about an unverified dossier of accusations against him — and BuzzFeed News' publication of the entire document.
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Erdogan railed against people in the press as attacking Turkish solidarity during the Gezi protests in 2013 and later terror attacks, comparing the local media's actions to those of their US counterparts. “Mr. Trump put the reporter of that [media] group in his place there,” he said.
According to the Daily Sabah, which posted the video of Erdogan's remarks, the president was speaking “with local administrators at the Beştepe Presidential Complex in Ankara” when he gave Trump the verbal pat on the back.
Following a failed coup attempt in July, Erdogan launched a crackdown on journalists. At least 81 of them are behind bars and more than 100 outlets have been shutdown in the aftermath.
Ozan Kose / AFP / Getty Images
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