Turkish board rules to re-run Istanbul election lost by Erdogan's AK Party
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Turkey’s High Election Board on Monday scrapped Istanbul election results showing a painful defeat for President Tayyip Erdogan, responding to his AK Party’s calls for a re-run of the vote in a decision that hit the lira and raised charges of conflicts of interest.