ANKARA (Reuters) - After a decade and a half of dominance built on Turkey's buoyant growth Tayyip Erdogan has paid a heavy electoral price for an economic slump and will make changes to his government to halt the damage, senior officials in his party said on Monday.
Erdogan saw his Islamist-rooted AK Party lose the capital Ankara in Sunday's local elections and appeared set for defeat in Turkey's largest city Istanbul - stunning reversals in two bastions of the party since he took power in 2003.
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