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Weekend: Voting gets underway in Turkey

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Voting gets underway in Turkey

14/05/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Voting gets underway in Turkey

People in Turkey are voting in crucial presidential and parliamentary elections

People in Turkey are voting in crucial presidential and parliamentary elections.

Voters are going to the polls in Turkey for a crucial presidential election. We'll go live to our correspondent there. 

Also in the programme: The Republican Congressman Rich McCormick on why he thinks it's vital to back Ukraine in its war with Russia; and we hear about the extraordinary friendship formed by two men after the 2015 terror attacks in Paris.

Joining Krupa Padhy to discuss these and other issues are Dr Jade McGlynn from the War Studies Department at King's College London; and Dr Dimitar Bechev from the School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford.

(Image: People arrive to cast their votes at a polling station during Turkey's General Election on May 14, 2023 in Ankara, Turkey. Credit: Burak Kara/Getty Images)

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