By Huseyin Hayatsever, Orhan Coskun and Birsen Altayli ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan led comfortably on Monday after the first round of Turkey’s presidential election, with his rival facing an uphill struggle to prevent the president extending his rule into a third decade in a runoff vote on May 28. Turkish assets weakened on the news, which showed Erdogan only just below the 50% threshold needed to avoid sending the NATO-member country to a second round of a presidential election viewed as passing judgment on his autocratic rule. Erdogan’s People’s Alliance, comprising his Islami…

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