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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan canceled his scheduled campaign rallies on Wednesday and Thursday for health reasons, weeks before May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n

“Today, I will rest at home with the advice of my doctors,” Erdogan wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Later, AK Party deputy chair Erkan Kandemir said Erdogan would attend a ceremony at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in the southern Mersin province via videolink on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“Our Mersin rally is also planned to be held on a future date,” he posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Late on Tuesday, Erdogan cut short a live TV interview during which he said he felt sick with an upset stomach.<\/p>\n

The elections represent the biggest electoral challenge for modern Turkey’s longest-serving leader, after a cost-of-living crisis eroded Erdogan’s support. Opinion polls show Erdogan could lose after two decades in power.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Huseyin Hayatsever; Editing by Jonathan Spicer and Grant McCool)<\/p>\n

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