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It is mid-morning on May 5, and Turkey’s capital Ankara is, if not in turmoil, then undergoing a reasonable approximation of it.
For days, rumours have rippled through the city that Turkey’s increasingly autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed another in a long line of scalps, this time the head of the well-liked prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The markets, too, are uneasy, with the lira and Borsa Istanbul’s benchmark index suffering the biggest falls of the year.
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