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Larry Kaplow

Turkey's president has built vast power over 20 years. But he may lose on Sunday

A poster of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, on a truck near an election poster of presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Istanbul, Turkey, May 8. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

ISTANBUL — For the past two decades, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dominated his country's politics. He's been a key and contentious player on the world stage. And he's steadily tightened his grip on power in ways that have weakened the country's democracy.

Now his bid for another five-year term faces a stiff challenge, with voters going to the polls this Sunday.

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