Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasn’t on the ballot in Sunday’s local elections, but he campaigned like he was.
It looks like it paid off because his party came out on top.
The BBC’s James Reynolds was at the polling station where Erdogan cast his vote.
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- James Reynolds, correspondent for the BBC. He tweets @JamesEReynolds.
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