Turks cast ballots for high-stakes municipal elections

Voters across Turkey cast their ballots on Sunday for municipal elections, seen as test of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and of his ruling AKP party. All eyes are on the race to control the country's economic hub Istanbul and capital Ankara. Polling stations closed in eastern regions at 1300 GMT while voting was underway in the country's West for another hour, election board chair Ahmet Yener told reporters in Ankara. Roughly 61 million people are eligible to vote in Sunday's polls, including a

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