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Turkey won't act against Russia 'based on allegation': President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

ANKARA (AFP) - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signalled Turkey has no plans to follow its Nato and European Union allies in expelling Russian diplomats following a spy poisoning in Britain blamed on Moscow, in comments published on Wednesday (March 28).

Mr Erdogan, who has forged an increasingly close alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Turkey could not take steps against Moscow "based on an allegation".

More than two dozen governments - the majority EU and Nato members - expelled nearly 150 suspected Russian spies after the March 4 attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury.

Read more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/turkey-wont-act-against-russia-based-on-allegation-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan