Change looms for failing opposition
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This has not been a fair race. Just look at the numbers for campaign financing, which only gave way for individual donations with an upper limit of around 9,000 Turkish Liras.
The AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gathered 55 million liras, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the joint candidate for the opposition CHP and MHP, received 8.5 million liras while the pro-Kurdish candidate from the HDP, Selahattin Demirtaş, got 1.2 million liras.
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