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NOVANEWS Bana al-Abed and family meeting Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Dec. 22, 2016. | Photo: Reuters The meeting, which included al-Abed's opposition fighter father became an official photo op. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with 7-year-old Bana al-Abed and her family in a carefully staged photo opportunity at the presidential palace in Ankara Wednesday, after their evacuation from Aleppo earlier this week. RELATED: Injured or Not, Syrian Kids Are Exploited by Anti-Assad Forces Turkish officials reported that Erdogan had personally sent a special envoy to Syria to airlift Bana and her family to Turkey during the evacuation of anti-government forces in eastern Aleppo began earlier this week. The meeting, which included al-Abed's father who is...