ISTANBUL:"Istanbul!" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shouted to the sea of supporters he gathered for a show-of-force rally ahead of next Sunday's election - the toughest of his two-decade rule.The masses were packed shoulder-to-shoulder across the tarmac of Istanbul's old Ataturk airport: a tidal wave of Turkish flags and banners with the 69-year-old president's face.
The latest polls suggest that Erdogan and opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu are locked in a dead heat and probably heading to a runoff on May 28. But Erdogan and his party charted 10,000 buses to bring in people from 39 provinces for what the president dubbed"the rally of the century" on Sunday.
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