Four Contenders and One Wild Card: A Guide to Turkey's Election
- Erdogan, AK Party seek to regain majority held for 12 years
- Secular, nationalist, Kurdish parties are main challengers
Turkey's High Stakes Election
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Turkey is holding its second election in five months on Nov. 1 after an inconclusive June ballot and failed coalition talks.
The political backdrop has darkened. The war with Kurdish militants is back on; suicide attacks in Ankara and eastern Turkey, by suspected Islamists, killed more than 130 people; and there’s growing concern that the war in neighboring Syria is spilling over.