Istanbul — US tech billionaire Elon Musk has made high-performance electric vehicles, created rockets that can land on ships and planned life on Mars — chronicling it all on social media. But his personal record for Instagram "likes" comes from a post this week about Turkey. The CEO of companies including Tesla and SpaceX visited the country to discuss the launch of rockets by Turkey’s national satellite firm. On Wednesday, he met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his presidential palace in the capital city of Ankara. They talked about a wide variety of issues and exchanged presents. That could have been the end of it. Then, as the sun set over Ankara, Musk posted a photo to Instagram. Arms crossed, wearing a suit and no tie, he stood in partial light at the mausoleum of Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. "Atatürk Anitkabir," he wrote. The photo had gotten more than 922,000 likes as of Friday, hundreds of thousands more than any previous post by Musk, who has 3.5-milli...
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