Turkey's president stops his motorcade to talk suicidal man off jumping from bridge (photos)

The president of Turkey, Recep Tayip Erdogan
was passing through the 211ft Bosphorus bridge
which links Europe with Asia after Friday prayers
on Christmas day when he spotted a man
attempting to jump off the bridge. He stopped his
motorcade to talk to the man whom police had
been trying to talk to for two hours.
Footage showed Erdogan's bodyguards bringing
the sobbing man, who appeared to be in his early
30s, to talk to the President through the window
of his car. After a few moments, the man could
then be seen kissing Erdogan's hand before being
escorted to safety.
Police had allegedly been trying for almost two
hours to talk the man out of committing suicide.
He was said to have abandoned his car on the
bridge and climbed over the side railing due to
long-standing depression.
The man is as yet unidentified.