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Russian President Putin is in Turkey today, officially to discuss the future of Syria, unofficially to create wonderful photo opportunities for both embattled leaders.

Turkish President Erdogan seemed to show off half the Turkish army to his counterpart upon arrival at Ankara airport but things truly got weird when it was time for the group picture. All of a sudden Mr Erdogan notices that there are three women standing next to Mr Putin and none next to him, so he decides to shuffle the deck in his favor.

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Earlier in the day, both leaders attended the start of the construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, to be built by Russia near the Mediterranean coastal town of Akkuyu.

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia's President Vladimir Putin launch the building of the Akkuyu nuclear power station, which when completed will meet 10 percent of the Turkey's energy needs <a href="https://t.co/KOFYTlC9gJ">pic.twitter.com/KOFYTlC9gJ</a></p>— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/981171304123351040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2018</a></blockquote>

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President Putin spoke and said that the project should be seen as another symbol of the ever greater cooperation between the two nations: “We face the ambitious goal of launching the first reactor in 2023 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey.”

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jealous? Erdogan seems miffed Putin gets all the women <a href="https://t.co/HZ3jhr7LuH">pic.twitter.com/HZ3jhr7LuH</a></p>— Ruptly (@Ruptly) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/981327188594081793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2018</a></blockquote>

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“We agreed with my dear friend, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to do everything necessary to achieve that goal.”

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Turkey’s Erdogan pushes Putin to the side making sure he’s in the middle for trilateral summit photo op. Weirdly reminiscent of Trump and the Montenegro PM h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/dimsmirnov175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dimsmirnov175</a> <a href="https://t.co/Wr0BOQqbli">pic.twitter.com/Wr0BOQqbli</a></p>— Thomas Grove (@tggrove) <a href="https://twitter.com/tggrove/status/981481780095184897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2018</a></blockquote>

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https://twitter.com/tggrove/status/981481780095184897