Footage from private Doğan news agency shows the man, whom the presidential sources said was from the southeastern province of Siirt and was having problems with his wife, talking to Erdoğan, who remained seated at the back seat of his car.
The man kissed the hand of Erdoğan, seen holding his mobile phone to his ear during the conversation, and left after a while.
The man is then seen escorted by a presidential advisor, Mustafa Varank. Presidential sources quoted by private broadcaster CNN Türk said the man was depressed because of family problems.
Erdogan talks man out of suicide on Bosporus bridge
25 December 2015
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President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an`s convoy coincidentally bumped into a suicide attempt over the Bosporus bridge in ?stanbul on Friday and talked to the man who wanted to jump off the bridge, persuading him not to kill himself.
