Polls open in Turkey’s historic presidential runoff ...Egypt

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CNN — Polls have opened in Turkey’s presidential runoff as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fights for a historic third term on Sunday. Erdogan is going head-to-head with opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a 74-year-old bureaucrat and leader of the left-leaning CHP. In the first round of voting on May 14, Erdogan secured a nearly five-point lead over Kilicdaroglu but fell short of the 50% threshold needed to win. The president’s parliamentary bloc won a majority of seats in the parliamentary race on the same day. Last week, third-place candidate Sinan Ogan, who won five percent of the first-round vote, publicly endorsed Erdogan, further boosting the strongman leader’s chances of winning

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