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The European Commission's first female president has blamed sexism for the "sofagate" debacle in Turkey earlier this month.
Ursula von der Leyen was left without a chair during a meeting in Ankara with Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan on 6 April.
"I cannot find any justification for how I was treated, so I have to conclude that it happened because I am a woman," she said during a speech to the European Parliament earlier today.
Video footage of the meeting showed Ms von der Leyen visibly taken aback when Mr Erdogan and European Council President Charles Michel sat on the only two chairs in front of of EU and Turkey flags, forcing her to go and sit on an adjacent sofa.
"I am the president of the European Commission, and this is how I expected to be treated when visiting Turkey, but I was not," Ms von der Leyen said.
