This weekend, Turkey reelected longtime leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for another five-year term as president. He beat opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu by four percentage points in Sunday’s runoff. But the race was plagued by concerns that Erdoğan had an unfair advantage, using government resources for campaign efforts and receiving the majority of media coverage. For many voters, the election results come at a steep cost: a loss of faith in Turkish democracy. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports from a polling station in Istanbul.
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