ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turks vote Sunday in the country’s first direct presidential election. Presidents were previously elected by Parliament — apart from former Gen. Kenan Evren who was confirmed in the post in a 1982 referendum, two years after he took power in a military coup.
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