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TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to expel the ambassadors of the US, Germany and eight other Western countries after they issued a rare joint statement condemning the detention of a civil society leader. Parisianborn philanthropist and activist Osman Kavala, 64, has been in jail without a conviction since 2017. “I told our foreign minister that we cannot have the luxury of hosting them in our country,” Erdogan told reporters in comments published by Turkish media. | AFP