With running at 50 per cent, a currency that has lost nine-tenths of its value over the past decade and a tanking economy, Turkey is perilously close to becoming a failed state.Add to that abysmal record a bungled response to a catastrophic in February that killed 50,000 people, and you would surely conclude that any leader who presided over this nightmare would lose any election by a landslide.But Recep Tayyip is not known as 'The Sultan' for nothing. While he didn't win Sunday's presidential poll outright, he did emerge with 49.5 per cent of the vote and will now go into a run-off election against his bookish opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, who won 44.9 per cent CHK.
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