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Turkey Latest: Erdogan’s Future at Stake in a Sharply Split Vote


More than 60 million voters are set to cast ballots on Sunday in Turkey’s most pivotal elections in a generation to determine if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan extends his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade. 

Turkey’s longest-serving leader has molded the NATO member into a regional power that plays a growing role from Ukraine to Syria. But increasingly erratic economic policies have left the 69-year-old incumbent vulnerable to voter resentment after an inflation crisis last year gutted household budgets.



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