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Turkey has asked Russia to help evacuate Turkish citizens stranded in the besieged city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine, Ankara’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters on Sunday. “As we have spoken with him [Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov], we asked for this support for the evacuation of our citizens from Mariupol,” Cavusoglu said. Ukraine said on Saturday that the city’s mosque – where around 80 civilians including several Turkish citizens were sheltering – had been fired at by Russian forces surrounding Mariupol. Cavusoglu’s comments are the first official reaction to the …