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Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party on Friday selected two low-profile candidates to run for mayor of Istanbul after the wife of the repressed community’s jailed elder statesman dropped out of the March 31 vote. Analysts believe the DEM Party’s decision not to field a more prominent name might peel fewer votes away from the current opposition mayor and hurt President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chances of winning back control of Turkey’s biggest city. Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted AKP party enters the nationwide municipal polls buoyed by a strong showing in last year’s general election. The veteran leader secure…

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