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Turkey’s President Erdogan wins re-election, but offers no clear answers to policy challenges
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Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dominated Turkey’s affairs for more than two decades.
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LONDON – With Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comfortably winning another five-year term in a heavily contested run-off election, attention is now shifting to how the veteran leader plans to manage one of Europe’s biggest, yet most troubled, economies.
Mr Erdogan, 69, secured 52 per cent of the votes in Sunday’s final round of the presidential ballot, while Mr Kemal Kilicdaroglu, his chief opponent, trailed at 48 per cent.
