During the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lightened the mood by joking with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni about her smoking habit, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Keir Starmer, shared in the laugh. The exchange took place on the sidelines of a pivotal summit attended by over 20 world leaders, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and co-chaired by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and U.S. President Donald Trump, who hailed a “new beginning” for Gaza’s postwar future.