Voters across Turkey headed to the polls Sunday in a crucial election pitting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
In a tight race, Erdogan’s penchant for political survival above all else — and comments by some of his loyalists — has raised questions about the fairness of the election and whether the president will accept the results. But few in Turkey, where elections are held almost sacred, think he would try to cancel a vote, even one that resulted in his defeat.
Despite such assurances, there have been accusations of election tampering, including a claim by Kilicdaroglu on Thursday on Twitter that Russia was behind “montages, conspiracies, deepfake content and tapes,” he wrote, without providing evidence. Russia has denied the claims.
In Antakya’s Elektrik neighborhood, the contractor, Mehmet, stopped at the site of his former apartment building and began searching what remained of the rubble. He said he had reinforced the foundation of the building himself. It had withstood the earthquakes but was left uninhabitable after neighboring buildings fell onto it.
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