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Dave Lawler

Turkey's election board gives Erdogan a redo in Istanbul after stinging local defeat

Erdogan pictured on a billboard in Istanbul during last year's snap election. Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Turkey's election officials today gave in to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's request for a re-run of the Istanbul mayor's race, five weeks after the ruling AKP suffered a narrow but bruising defeat.

Why it matters: This is a significant blow to Turkey's already damaged democracy. Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute calls it "the greatest distortion of democratic elections in Turkey since the country’s first free and fair polls in 1950." There are already reports of protests.

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