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Voters in Istanbul head to polls for presidential runoff election

Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade, or is unseated by challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who has promised to restore a more democratic society. FRANCE 24 reporter William Hilderbrandt in Istanbul says that for many people, "the ballot box is their last form of dissent".