Turkey's Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from the opposition parties contesting the candidacy of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the upcoming August presidential election.
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) appealed to the Constitutional Court in July, claming that Recep Tayyip Erdogan could not be candidate without resigning from his current post of Prime Minister post.
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