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ANKARA, Turkey —
Veteran politican Fethi Celikbas plans to run for president next week in a parliamentary vote expected to pit him against Prime Minister Turgut Ozal.
“A presidential election cannot be held with just one candidate,” the Hurriyet newspaper Friday quoted Celikbas, a former Cabinet minister, as saying in a reference to Ozal, who is expected to declare his candidacy soon.
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