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AKP, CHP exchange fire over coup as referendum ballots print

Turkey's ruling party and opposition leadership are trading accusations of complicity and cowardice in the July coup in a race to discredit each other as the constitutional referendum nears.
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu casts his ballot at a polling station in Ankara, Turkey, November 1, 2015. Turks began voting on Sunday amid worsening security and economic worries in a snap parliamentary election that could profoundly impact the divided country's trajectory and that of President Tayyip Erdogan. The parliamentary poll is the second in five months, after the ruling AK Party founded by Erdogan failed to retain its single-party majority in Jun

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the bravest Turk of all?

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and members of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), along with their supporters in the media, are accusing and mocking Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), for allegedly fleeing the putschists during the failed coup attempt in July.

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