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Inside Europe: A setback for Turkey's Erdogan

Dorian Jones
April 5, 2019

Local elections in Turkey have delivered a huge setback to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His AK party has lost control of the capital, Ankara and looks set to lose Istanbul. The elections were widely seen as a crucial test of Erdogan's leadership and his reputation of electoral invincibility has been damaged. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul.

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