No place for a woman?

Von der Leyen is left standing in another corner of the meeting hall, apparently bewildered over the seating arrangements which had left her without a chair while her male counterparts are seated.

“ Ehm,” von der Leyen is heard saying.

Later, von der Leyen appears seated on a sofa, leaving her seemingly left out from the ‘men’s talk’. Tensions between the EU and Turkey have for the most part recently taken place in the Eastern Mediterranean, with Turkey rejecting maritime boundaries made by both Greece and Cyprus.

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