Soccer could cost Turkish Prime Minister votes in Trabzon
In much of Turkey the question is not whether Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Democracy Party (AKP) will win June 12 elections but by what margin. The Black Sea town of Trabzon may be the exception after the city’s Trabzonspor soccer club lost its bid for the Turkish Spor Toto Super League title to Istanbul’s Fenerbahce.
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