WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington, the White House said, amid serious tensions over press freedom and the war in Syria.

Having previously stated the pair were unlikely to hold sit-down talks -- a decision widely perceived as a snub by Washington -- the White House said the two men had in fact met on the margins of a nuclear security summit.

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