Turkey demands apology after Draghi calls Erdogan a dictator

Mario Draghi (Brian Lawless/PA)

Turkey has demanded an apology from Italy’s premier for having called President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “dictator”.

The comment added fuel to a dispute over a perceived seating snub involving a top European Union official and deepened an EU-Turkey rift at a time when the two sides had hoped for rapprochement.