Turkey’s Weakened Erdogan Seeks to Engineer Presidential Run-Off – Balkan Insight

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As Turkey nears potentially pivotal May 14 elections, all eyes are on two men incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his chief challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. But their battle for the countrys highest office may be decided, in part, by a third candidate for the post.

After 21 years running the country, Erdogan faces the biggest test yet of his grip on power.

He currently trails in opinion polls behind Kilicdaroglu, the joint candidate of the Nation Alliance opposition bloc, but experts say the Erdogan camp is counting on another challenger, Muharrem Ince, to split the opposition vote and force a run-off.

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