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Erdogan's Victory in the Turkish Election

At one time, polls actually had Erdogan trailing by about 10 points. I'm curious what he did to kind of shift the tides and ultimately push himself over that 50 percent threshold. The dispossessed really in Turkey are poor rural, pious Turks who live in central Anatolia. He was very successful at painting his opponent Khilich Darolu as a tool of the PKK.

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