Turkey’s tight election
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu are locked in a tight battle for the presidency as the election count suggested rising odds of an unprecedented second round, Argentina today will announce a new round of emergency government measures, Twitter's new CEO could mend relations with advertisers who have paused spending on the social media site, and big infrastructure projects have led to soaring demand for the world’s most used natural material, sand.
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Turkey’s opposition disputes early election lead for Erdoğan
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Argentina plans emergency economic measures to avoid big devaluation
Sand shortages push up cost of jam jars and fracking
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:09.7 | Good morning for the financial times. |
| 0:11.3 | Today is Monday, May 15th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:19.2 | Turkey's presidential election is too close to call. |
| 0:22.6 | Twitter has got a new CEO, but how many strings is she going to be allowed to pull? |
| 0:27.3 | And inflation in Argentina hit 109% last month. |
| 0:31.7 | And the government's trying to get a lid on things before an election this autumn. |
| 0:35.8 | Plus, sand is everywhere, but the FT's Ken Zabrayin tells us there is still a shortage. |
| 0:42.9 | There's teeny tiny commodity that we don't really think about very much. |
| 0:46.4 | Could be the factor that's causing construction costs to keep rising beyond what they should be. |
| 0:51.9 | A Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:02.7 | Both a regiab tie up Erdogan and his challenger, Kamal Kalich Darlu, |
| 1:06.0 | claimed to lead Turkey's presidential race. |
| 1:08.6 | Turkey's state news agency said that President Erdogan got just under 50% of yesterday's vote, |
| 1:14.4 | while Kalich Darlu secured 45%. This was based on the count from 93% of the ballot boxes. |
| 1:20.9 | Kalich Darlu's allies objected to those figures and said the agency was using deceptive tactics. |
| 1:26.4 | But if the figures hold true, neither one would have secured enough votes to win the presidency |
| 1:31.6 | outright, and it would force an unprecedented runoff election in two weeks time. |
| 1:42.0 | Elon Musk is trying to bring advertisers back to his social media site. |
| 1:46.8 | So he's hired advertising heavyweight Linda Jacarino to be Twitter's new CEO. |
| 1:51.8 | She doesn't come from social media. She previously headed advertising at the US Entertainment |
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