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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Erdoğan faces real chance of losing as Turkey gets ready to vote

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left) and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. The challenger is gaining from public unhappiness over the economic crisis and high death toll from earthquakes this year. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Shutterstock/

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his Justice and Development party (AKP) face their greatest political challenge yet in elections on Sunday, with polls suggesting a united opposition could end his two decades in power.

Amid an economic crisis, and months after earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people and displaced millions more, the parliamentary and presidential votes will decide who leads the country of nearly 85 million and where it heads next.

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