"Turkish candidate plays anti-immigrant card in election runoff"

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rival in Turkey's presidential race, has accused the government of allowing 10 million "irregular" migrants to enter the country, marking a nationalist and anti-migrant turn in his rhetoric in advance of a May 28 run-off vote. Kilicdaroglu's latest comments on Wednesday came after his party said it had filed complaints about suspected irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes in Sunday's landmark elections. Erdogan's governing conservative AK Party and its nationalist allies won a comfortable parliamentary majority in Sunday's elections, while Erdogan fell just shy of the 50 percent threshold needed to win outright in the presidential contest.
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