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Tired of treading softly, Turkey's Erdogan back on election warpath | Euronews

Tired of treading softly, Turkey's Erdogan back on election warpath
By Reuters• last updated: 19/06/2019 - 17:02

By Orhan Coskun, Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Spicer

ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has gone on the warpath against the main opposition days ahead of a re-run of a mayoral vote in Istanbul, scrapping plans to avoid divisive rhetoric that some officials in his ruling AK Party believed would alienate voters.

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