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Friday, March 21, 2014

Food and fuel trump graft for Turkey's local elections - chicagotribune.com

Food and fuel trump graft for Turkey's local elections

Humeyra Pamuk Reuters

12:16 a.m. CDT, March 21, 2014

ANKARA (Reuters) - Taxi driver Ramazan Aktay is quick to shrug off the corruption scandal swirling around Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, at least as long as the ruling party keeps delivering free food and coal to his working class suburb of Ankara.

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