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An also-ran who helped push Turkey to its first run-off election on May 28 is using his new-found fame to make ultra-nationalism mainstream and tease over a second-round endorsement.And since Erdogan almost won outright in the first round,

What to know about Turkey’s tight presidential vote and how it could have implications around the world, including here in the United States.

A little-known nationalist who helped push Turkey’s election to a runoff told AFP on Tuesday he could throw his support behind either President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or his secular rival.In an interview with AFP,

Twitter’s decision to block certain content in Turkey the day before its presidential election was wrong, says the founder of Wikipedia.Jimmy Wales told the BBC his organisation had spent two and a half years in court to avoid similar demands made by Turkey in the past.

Twitter’s owner Elon Musk said Turkey had threatened to block the whole site. In 2014, Turkish President Recep Erdogan did exactly that, vowing to “wipe out” the social network after corruption allegations about his administration were shared on the platform.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said fighting censorship requests “is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.”

Twitter on Monday defended its actions surrounding the presidential elections in Turkey over the weekend. “We were in negotiation with the Turkish Government throughout last week, who made clear to us Twitter was the only social media service not complying in full with existing court orders,

Turkey’s nail-biter of an election will go to a runoff, officials said, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed he was still a formidable political force. Although he fell just short of an outright majority, with 49.5 percent of the vote, signs point strongly to yet another Erdogan victory in two weeks.