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"Main opposition Turkish party re-elects leader
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANKARA, TURKEY

Turkey's main opposition center-left Republican People's Party re-elected Deniz Baykal as its chairman early Sunday.
Baykal received 674 of the 1,219 votes cast at a party congress in Ankara on Saturday, the Anatolia news agency said. Baykal's sole opponent was Mustafa Sarigul, the popular mayor of Istanbul's affluent Sisli district, who received 460 votes, it said.
The party, Turkey's oldest, is pro-secular and favors a strong state sector in the economy. "

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