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Suzan Fraser | AP

Turkey presidential runoff: Incumbent Erdogan claims victory

A ballot with the names and images of two presidential candidates, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Kemal Kilicdaroglu at a polling station in Ankara, Turkey on Sunday. (Burhan Ozbilici/Associated Press)

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory Sunday in his country’s runoff election, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade.

With nearly 99% of ballot boxes opened, unofficial results from competing news agencies showed Erdogan with 52% of the vote, compared with 48% for his challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

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