Erdogan Seeks Re-Election as Healthcare Trumps Headscarves
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing out a nationwide system of personal healthcare that may win him more votes in next year’s election than all his rows with Turkey’s secular-minded generals.
Next month Erdogan’s government says it will complete a network of family doctors -- one for every 3,500 Turks. That’s a first for the European Union membership candidate where infant mortality is 17 in a thousand, the highest in the 33-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.