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The incumbent party of Erdoğan, the AKP, seems to have lost momentum, but it is still premature to make any definitive predictions at this stage.

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It is the single most important election since the first multi-party election was held in 1946, and also comes on the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic

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Both candidates claim to have enough votes to win the presidential race in the first round and win most of the seats in the parliament. Will either man be able to achieve a landslide?

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