Turks are voting in the most pivotal elections in their modern history.
By Paul Kirby in Ankara & Anna Foster in Hatay provinceTurks are voting in the most pivotal elections in their modern history, to decide if Recep Tayyip Erdogan remains president after 20 years in power.
At an optician's in Ankara, Burak Onder complained that hardly anyone was buying glasses any more: "People don't even ask for discounts, they can't afford it." Rahime's 19-year-old daughter Sudenur feels anxious about the future, and is worried she may not be able to fulfil her ambition of studying sport science.
In Adana, where hundreds of people died in collapsed buildings, there is still palpable anger about the response. Opposition parties are deploying volunteers to ensure the 192,000 ballot boxes and results are properly scrutinised to avoid the risk of fraud.
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