Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said he had accepted the apology, "in the name of the Turkish people".

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Mr Gormley has accepted the apology.

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Obama quickly accepted the apology.

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But his host at the mosque, a Jordanian Prince, publicly accepted an apology that he had made soon after the lecture.

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Meanwhile, the Telegraph newspaper reports that England hooker Dylan Hartley - whom Gatland criticised as a weak link in the run-up to the 4 February clash - has accepted the Wales coach's apology.

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And Plaid Cymru parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd told BBC Wales that the apology "should be accepted in the fulsome way it is being offered".

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The prime minister said Mr Mitchell had apologised to the officer concerned, his apology had been accepted and that he had subsequently resigned after deciding he would not be able to continue doing his job.

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The most important thing to Adrian is that Lux accepted his apology.

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The police said the search was a mistake, and Mr Campbell said he accepted their apology.

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Zoeller's reputation took a battering in the row that followed and despite issuing an apology, which Woods accepted, he also later shed a key sponsorship deal with K-Mart.

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