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Mar 2023
26m 38s

Turkey analyst Merve Tahiroglu says Kurd...

Al-monitor
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Turkey’s watershed elections on which the future of its crippled democracy hangs are due to be held on May 14. Opinion polls continue to point to a tight race making the outcome of the presidential and parliamentary polls difficult to call . Election security remains a big concern and there is little doubt that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will st ... Show More
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