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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed disappointment with the results of local elections that showed a major setback for his ruling AKP party. “Unfortunately, we were unable to achieve the result we desired and hoped for in the local election test,” Erdoğan told supporters at his party headquarters in capital Ankara. Main opposition CHP party secured the highest number of mayoral seats in 81 cities according to unofficial preliminary results shared by state news agency Anadolu. Observers called the result a historic defeat for Erdogan’s Islamic conservative party. The secular CH…

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