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ISTANBUL: Turkey’s main opposition candidate was declared Istanbul’s mayor on Wednesday after election recounts were finally completed, despite an appeal still pending by President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party to re-run the vote in the country’s largest city. The final result of the March 31 local elections showed a narrow victory for the secularist opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP) in Turkey’s …

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