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Turks in Switzerland have their say in elections back home

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Bruno is SWI swissinfo.ch’s global democracy correspondent as well as being a long-term foreign correspondent for the Swiss Broadcasting Company, based in Sweden. He is also the Director of International Relations at the Swiss Democracy Foundation, Co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy and Co-initiator of the International League of Democracy Cities.

In pivotal elections in Turkey on May 14, and a possible runoff vote two weeks later, Turkish citizens based abroad will play a decisive role. Campaigning in Switzerland – home to over 100,000 eligible Turkish voters – has been intense.

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