Arms industry takes center stage in Turkey’s tense election campaign
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ANKARA — Turkey’s defense-industry ambitions have taken center stage in a polarized campaign here, as 60 million Turks prepare to cast their votes in presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14. Wary of the country’s worst economic crisis since 2001, the government of incumbent Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has anchored its campaign on the halo effect of landmark indigenous military programs. Analysts in the camp of Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) believe that an
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