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Turkey elections: worst case scenario

Turkey elections: worst case scenario

Ankara: Erdogan’s popularity has fallen (Photo: Jorge Franganillo)

By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS, Today, 13:38

A big win for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday (7 June) could spell “goodbye” to the EU accession process, or worse.

The parliamentary vote is, on paper, not about Erdogan, who resigned from the ruling AKP party when he became president, a “neutral” figure in the Turkish constitution.

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