Campaigning wraps up for Turkey vote

Turkish politicians yesterday held their final campaign rallies for a vote many fear is unlikely to bring an end to months of instability as the country confronts bloody jihadist attacks and a renewed Kurdish conflict.

Opinion polls are predicting a replay of the shock June election which stripped the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of its majority.

Turkey goes into the election more polarised than ever on ethnic and sectarian lines, and deeply on edge after the October 10 bombings in Ankara that killed 102 people, the worst in the country's modern history.

The AKP of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is tipped to win between 40 and 43 percent of the vote, paving the way either for a shaky coalition that many analysts say will not last long -- or yet another election.