By Dasha Afanasieva and Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday they were disappointed Chancellor Angela Merkel was the only G7 leader to attend a summit on how the world deals with humanitarian crises. "It is a bit disappointing that some world leaders could not be here, especially those from the G7 countries," Ban told a news conference at the end of the summit. Disasters, both man-made and natural, mean that 130 million people need humanitarian aid, costing an annual $240 billion (£164.1 billion), a 12-fold increase since 2000 but still just 1 percent of global military spending, he said.
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