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Live-tweeting 7-year-old from Aleppo Meets Erdogan

Bana Alabed, a seven-year-old Syrian girl who has been tweeting from war-torn Aleppo, met Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his palace Wednesday in Ankara. Bana also tweeted the experience and the same photos, a stark difference from the rest of her feed, which has shown devastation and survival in Eastern Aleppo during the past three months. She said she ws "very happy to meet with Mr Erdogan." Bana and her mother, an English teacher, have been tweeting...

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