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Polls open in historic runoff election in Turkey

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Turkey runoff election

A woman casts her ballot on the day of the presidential runoff vote in a polling station in a school in Adana on May 28, 2023. Turkey voted on May 28, 2023 in a historic runoff that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan enters as the firm favorite to extend two decades of his Islamic-rooted rule to 2028. Yasin AKGUL / AFP

Polling stations opened Sunday in Turkey’s first-ever runoff election, where conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the firm favorite to extend his two decades of Islamic-rooted rule to 2028, Agence France-Presse reported.

Voting began at 8:00 am (0500 GMT) and will close at 5:00 pm. Erdoğan won the first round on May 14 but fell just short of an outright majority against his secular challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

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