Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz arrives for a news conference after a cabinet meeting in Vienna, Austria April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's right-wing coalition government, which is strongly opposed to Turkey joining the European Union, will bar Turkish politicians from campaigning on its territory ahead of June elections in Turkey, the chancellor has said.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called snap parliamentary and presidential elections this week, bringing the votes forward by more than a year so that Turkey can switch to a powerful new executive presidency system that was narrowly approved in a referendum last year.
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