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Turkey: Poverty on the elections agenda

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Turkey's voters will elect a new government on Sunday and the city of Istanbul is by far the largest battleground for the parties.

The ruling AKP is standing on its economic record: the Turkish economy grew by nearly nine percent last year.

But there are still voters in the country's biggest city who feel they are being left behind as Huseyin Alkan of the BBC's Turkish Service reports.

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