Boris Johnson seeks to mend fences in talks with Turkish leadership

UK foreign secretary avoids mention of lewd poem about Turkey's president and pledges to support EU membership bid The British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, a former arch critic of the current Turkish leadership, sought to mend battered fences in a series of high level meetings with the Turkish government on Tuesday, culminating in a pledge to be one of the strongest supporters of the country's membership of the European Union. Johnson also claimed his Turkish hosts did not bring up the cont...