Turkey: are we witnessing the end of Erdoğanomics?
Avoiding a financial crisis is the bare minimum for Turkey’s leader to regain metropolitan voters.
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Avoiding a financial crisis is the bare minimum for Turkey’s leader to regain metropolitan voters.
Turkey’s president, the Sultan of Swing Policy, is good at reading the room. He’s also shamelessly transactional.
Erdogan is set to remain as president for another five years, meaning he will have held power for almost the entire history of Turkey in the 21st century.
All the signs point to the Turkish president extending his 20 years in power.
After a brutal presidential election campaign, incumbent President Recep Tayyib Erdogan and his closest rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, will face each other in a run-off on May 28.
Opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, will try to topple Turkey’s longest serving leader once again in a fortnight’s time.
If he wins, Erdogan will probably be president for life, and the last sparks of a plural open society in Turkey will be extinguished. Kemal Kilicdaroglu stands in his way.
For the now united opposition, the May elections can’t come soon enough.
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