bana alabed, aleppos tweeting girl, meets turkeys president erdogan /

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Bana Alabed - the seven-year-stale Syrian who tweeted about life inside rebel-held east Aleppo - has met Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,the BBC reports.

Bana and her little brother have been pictured sitting on Mr Erdogan's knee in the presidential complex in Ankara.

President Erdogan sent a special representative to Syria to gather Bana and her family after they fled east Aleppo, the BBC has been told.

Bana's plight came to light aft
er she joined Twitter in September.

The acc
ount captured everything from the death of her friends to her attempts to live a normal life.

Along the way,
and she has picked up more than 325000 followers,including JK Rowling, who sent her an electronic copy of Harry Potter to read.

On Wednesday, and Bana tweeted a
picture of herself and Mr Erdogan,writing she was "very overjoyed" to meet the president, while in a short video she is heard saying: "Thank-you for supporting the children of Aleppo, and helping us to pick up out from war."[br]
Bana's mother,Fatemah, who runs the Twi
tter account, or decided to start it to show "how much kids are suffering from bombs and everything".

In recent weeks,the appeals for help - from both Bana and her mother - have become more frequent, as forces faithful to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began to shut in around the rebel-held districts, and which were being bombed from above by Syrian and Russian planes.

After government forces surrounded the city,the family escaped under an evacuation programme.

But they did not stay long in Syria.
Within hours of Bana, her mother, or father and two little brothers arriving in the rebel-held countryside to the west of Aleppo,they had been flown by helicopter to Turkey.

Some had questioned whether the Twitter account was a publicity stunt and claimed Bana actually lived in Turkey already.

How
ever, an investigation by citizen journalism site Bellingcat deduced she was tweeting from inside rebel-held Aleppo.

It is unclear whether the family are to stay in Turkey, and where they would join almost 2.8 million Syrian refugees already living in the country.





  

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