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Fool Me Once? Erdogan Allegedly Falls Victim of a Phone Prank

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacts as he attends the COP 21 United Nations conference on climate change, on November 30, 2015 at Le Bourget, on the outskirts of the French capital Paris - Sputnik International
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A pair of Russian pranksters reportedly managed to trick Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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Russian prankster Alexei Stolyarov (also known as Lexus) told a Russian radio station Govorit Moskva how he and his colleague Vladimir Kuznetsov (Vovan) managed to have a phone conversation with the Turkish president and convince him that he was in fact talking with Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

"He’s not the first whom we’ve managed to call, and not the last… Of course, you can’t pull off such a stunt in  just one call, you need to make at least several phone calls," he said.

The prankster also said that some heads of state actually use cell phones.

"We’ve managed to make a call to Poroshenko once. We even managed to reach him when he was aboard a plane to the US, over the Atlantic," Stolyarov added.
The prankster pointed out that there in fact are numerous ways to get hold of a VIP by phone.

Meanwhile, a source in the Erdogan’s administration told RIA Novosti that the reports about a prank pulled on the Turkish leader are fake.

"I didn’t hear anything about this phone call, and besides, you can’t reach the president so easily. I believe that this is a fake, as there are special communication channels and procedures established for such talks," the source said.

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