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Ahead of Sunday’s run-off vote, opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu has courted nationalist votes by vowing to expel millions of Syrian refugees.

The opposition candidate trailed in the first round by 2.5 million votes.

The last hours of Turkey's presidential race turn sour as the candidates argue over refugees.

Far-right Turkish leader Umit Ozdag endorses Kemal Kilicdaroglu for the Turkish presidency.

In-depth: Landmark presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey have been marred by a xenophobic discourse against the country's 3.5 million Syrian refugees, with the opposition promising to return them to Syria within two years.

Northern Syria Security Dynamics and the Refugee Crisis Getty/Delil Souleiman/AFP A boy watches a Turkish military convoy drive past a Syrian village on the outskirts of Tal Abyad along the border with Turkey, September 2019. Sam Hananel Introduction and summary The Syrian conflict, now entering its second decade, has cost more than 500,000 lives and forced 13 million Syrian civilians to flee their homes—more than half the prewar population—including 6.6 million who are refugees outside ...

ANAKARA: A new poll showed a hostile picture among Turks to the integration of Syrian refugee population in the country. The survey, entitled “Dimensions of Polarization in Turkey 2020,” was conducted by Istanbul Bilgi University in cooperation with German Marshall Fund of the United States through face-to-face interviews across 29 cities with a representative sample of 4,000 people from Turkey’s adult population. It found that 86 percent of respondents want the 4 million Syrian refugee...