When polls opened in Turkey on Sunday, opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu seemed poised to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been in power for 20 years. Now, the two are headed to a runoff, with Erdoğan enjoying a comfortable lead. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren has more on what happened.
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