The First Round of the Turkish Presidential Election

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Kamal Kalich-d'Arlu was seen as sort of in the poll position, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was expected to be fairly poorly. Neither of them had enough to get a majority because there's a third candidate and guy called Sinon O'on who also scored about 5% of the vote. So where will his votes go? Do we have a sense of how this all is going to shake out? Adam Samson covers Turkey for the FT.

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