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What is expected from the runoff election in Turkey?

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Voters in Turkey will be back at the polls on May 28 as no candidate managed to secure 50% of the vote in the first round. We speak to lawyer Sedat Yurtdaş from Diyarbakır about the reasons that both candidates, Kilicdaroglu and Erdogan did not secure 50% of the votes.


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By Mayada Kordy Khalil

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Voters in Turkey will be back at the polls on May 28 as no candidate managed to secure 50% of the vote in the first round. We speak to lawyer Sedat Yurtdaş from Diyarbakır about the reasons that both candidates, Kilicdaroglu and Erdogan did not secure 50% of the votes.



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