Venezuela crisis: How Turkey has become the staunchest defender of president Nicolas Maduro

The US and Canada, and much of Latin America – with the exception of Mexico, Cuba and Bolivia – have lined up against the embattled Nicolas Maduro, now struggling to hang on as president of Venezuela. “Our president has called [Maduro] to express Turkey’s support,” Mr Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin wrote on Twitter. “Brother Maduro, stand tall, Turkey stands with you,” he quoted Mr Erodgan as saying.

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