Turkey’s Prime Minister returned home to a hero’s welcome this morning after storming off stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos during a heated spat over Israel’s assault on Gaza.
In the most dramatic moment of this year’s muted Davos conference, Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked off a panel discussion including Shimon Peres and Ban Ki-Moon after a moderator cut off his reply to a long and impassioned monologue by the Israeli President.
Mr Erdogan gathered up his belongings and marched off stage, red-faced, shouting that he would not return to Davos again as he had not been allowed to speak.
Around 3,000 supporters gathered at Istanbul’s airport in the early morning, waving red and white Turkish flags and banners reading “Conqueror of Davos” as