President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered the next phase of the fiercest domestic political challenge of his two decades in power Monday, with Turkish election officials confirming that the country's presidential election is now headed for a two-candidate...
He will now go head-to-head in a second round against his main rival, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a secularist who has campaigned on a promise to return
to a more democratic path and to restore the country’s economy, battered in recent years by high inflation and repeated currency devaluations., a key U.S. security partner that maintains the second-largest military in NATO., who has held power since 2003 and has won more than a dozen past elections and presidential referendums, fell just short of the 50% vote threshold needed to win in the first round.
Initial counts Monday showed him with 49.5% of the vote, while Mr. Kilicdaroglu garnered 44.9%, and a third candidate, right-wing challenger Sinan Ogan, received 5.2%, according to the country’s Supreme Electoral Board. Mr. Ogan gave no sign Monday on how he would ask his supporters to vote on May 28.
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