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Secretary of State John Kerry was late for a dinner at the residence of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The translator said Kerry was late because of an intense conversation he had with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu. Erdogan cynically noted that in light of the meeting between his foreign minister and Kerry, there was nothing left to talk about. He hoped this would save him from a lecture on his recent verbal attack against Israel.