Turkey set for runoff as Erdogan falls just short of victory

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Turkey set for runoff as Erdogan falls just short of victory

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 13:21
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Turkey will hold a runoff election, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan just failing to secure enough votes for a first-round victory. The 69-year-old, looking to extend his two decades in power, will face Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, in another vote on May 28 after doing better than polls predicted. Turkish stocks and bonds dropped, while the cost of insuring the government’s debt against a default…

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