WASHINGTON 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received letters of credentials Tuesday from newly appointed ambassadors to the capital Ankara.

Erdogan separately welcomed Lebanon's Mounir N. Anouti, Ghana's Sheikh Abdul Nasiru-Deen, Nasri Khalil Salim Abu Jaish of Palestine, Abdoulaye Fofana of Guinea, and Japan's Masami Tamura.

After the new envoys’ credentials were presented at the presidential complex, souvenir photos were taken.