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Five scenarios for Turkey's finely-balanced polls

Five scenarios for Turkey's finely-balanced polls
[Agence-France Presse]
by Stuart WILLIAMS
Agence-France Presse20 June 2018
Sunday's election focus will be on whether longterm leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan can win the presidency in the first round and if his ruling party keeps its parliamentary majority

The outcome is far from certain in Turkey's elections Sunday, seen as the biggest test for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the ballot box in his one-and-a-half decades in power.

Parliamentary and presidential polls are being held on the same day for the first time in Turkey's history, under a new constitution that also grants the incoming president greater powers.

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