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Tensions running high in Turkey as elections loom - Report: Turkey - RFI

Tensions running high in Turkey as elections loom

By Tony Cross

Less than one week to go till Turkey's second general election in five months, tensions are running high as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party fights to claw back the absolute majority that eluded it in June. Nine people were killed on Monday in a shootout between Turkish police and IS suspects, in another sign of growing tensions fuelled by the Kurdish conflict and the spill over from the war in Syria.

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