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Turkey: Presidential Candidate Makes TV Speech From Prison

Turkey's state broadcaster has aired a campaign speech by a jailed presidential candidate.   Selahattin Demirtas asked voters in Turkey's June 24 snap elections to prevent the “one-man regime” of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He called Turkey's current climate a “teaser” for a film “whose actual scary parts have not yet begun.”   Demirtas made the 10-minute speech at a prison in western Turkey, where he is being held on alleged terror charges. He can run for...


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