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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Andrew Wilks

Turkey’s opposition faces difficult road ahead after another loss

Defeated presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu faces attacks over his long unsuccessful term as head of the Republican People's Party (CHP) as many supporters demand a successor [File: Cagla Gurdogan/Reuters]

Istanbul, Turkey – As the dust settles on the elections, Turkey’s opposition is turning to the question of how it failed to grab its best chance of unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The opposition, led by Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s Nation Alliance, had seen the country’s worst economic crisis in two decades and the fallout over catastrophic earthquakes in February as near-insurmountable obstacles to Erdogan’s re-election.

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