Turks hail PM after bust-up with Peres

Thousands of Turks welcomed their prime minister home on Friday with chants of "Turkey is proud of you" after he publicly confronted the Israeli president over the bloody Gaza onslaught.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's intervention at the World Economic Forum in Davos also won praise in Gaza, where Turkish flags fluttered from a ruined mosque.

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