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  • Turkey’s presidential election will be decided in a May 28 run-off vote after incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu failed to win an outright majority in the first round, according to the electoral body.
  • Erdogan took 49.5 percent of Sunday’s vote, while Kilicdaroglu got 44.89 percent of the vote.
  • Sinan Ogan of the right-wing ATA Alliance received 5.17 percent, emerging as a potential kingmaker.
  • Erdogan’s alliance has also retained its hold on the country’s parliament following Sunday’s legislative ballot.