Turkey's historic presidential runoff: Nationalism and fear vs. Erdogan's era.

Turkey is holding its first presidential runoff election after neither candidate earned more than 50% of the vote in the May 14 election. The powerful incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faced off against opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in what many described as the most serious fight of Erdogan's political life and a potential death blow to his 20-year reign. Erdogan's continued and seemingly unshakeable popularity comes despite several years of economic deterioration in the country of 85 million. Kilicdaroglu made a stunning lurch toward xenophobia and fear-mongering as part of his runoff campaign strategy, tapping into widespread Turkish discontent toward the country's more than 4 million refugees.
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