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Turkey mails bombed parliament debris in New Year cards
It's a New Year's card with a message. Turkey has mailed thousands of diplomats and journalists a fragment of its bomb-damaged parliament, along with its wishes for a happy year of democracy.
The national assembly in Ankara was hit by air strikes in July during a failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which was blamed by the government on the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.
“This piece of marble that fell from the wall of the grand national assembly of Turkey... is presented to you as a symbol of Turkey's devotion to democracy,” says the New Year's card received by AFP in Paris.