Turkish president joins list of world leaders dodging COP26 summit

Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan will no longer be attending the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.

According to Reuters Erdogan was unwilling to attend after the UK failed to fulfil his security arrangement requests.

Erdogan has travelled from yesterday’s G20 summit in Rome straight back to Turkey.

Russian premier Vladimir Putin, Chinese president Xi JinPing and Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro have also said they will not attend the summit.