Turkey's Runoff Election: Erdogan vs Kilicdaroglu for Third Decade in Power.

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Turkey's President Erdogan and main opposition leader Kilicdaroglu will face each other in a runoff election on May 28 after neither candidate crossed the 50% threshold in the first round on Sunday. Erdogan received 49.51% of the votes, finishing the race nearly five percentage points ahead of Kilicdaroglu, whose vote share stood at 44.88%. Erdogan's Nation's Alliance won control of the parliament by securing 322 seats of the 600-seat chamber. The runoff gives the opposition its best chance to unseat Erdogan, the longest-serving president in Turkey's modern history.
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