Overview

• Footage shows Recep Tayyip Erdogan greeting Giorgia Meloni and telling her to stop smoking, drawing a laugh from Emmanuel Macron.
• Meloni, appearing briefly caught off guard, replied jokingly, “I know, I know. I don’t want to kill somebody,” in the exchange captured by Turkey’s İhlas News Agency.
• The clip quickly drew millions of views across X and TikTok, becoming a widely shared human moment from the Egypt-hosted gathering.
• Ankara and Rome offered no official comment, while a Turkish presidential communications adviser described the interaction as sincere and personal.
• The summit focused on stabilizing the Israel–Hamas ceasefire and Gaza’s reconstruction, with leaders including Donald Trump, António Guterres, King Abdullah II, and Keir Starmer in attendance, and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi praising U.S. mediation.