Voters in Turkey return to polls to decide on opposing presidential visions – KTVZ

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Voters in Turkey are returning to the polls to decide whether the country’s longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade or is unseated by a challenger who has promised to restore a more democratic society. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been at Turkey’s helm for 20 years. He is favored to win a new five-year term in the second-round runoff after coming just short of an outright victory in the first round on May 14. The divisive populist who turned his country into a geopolitical player finished four percentage points ahead of Kemal Kilicdaroglu (pronounced KEH-lich-DAHR-OH-loo), the candidate of a six-party alliance.