Turkish polling stations closed Sunday in a historic runoff election that could extend President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two decades of dominant but divisive Islamic style of rule until 2028.
May 28, 2023 10:35pm
Opposition supporters viewed it as a do-or-die chance to save Turkey from being turned into an autocracy by a man whose consolidation of power rivals that of Ottoman sultans. The 69-year-old looked tired but at ease as he voted with his wife Emine in a conservative district of Istanbul.Emir Bilgin heeded the Turkish leader's call.
The 74-year-old had always adhered to the firm nationalist principles of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk—a revered military commander who formed Turkey and Kilicdaroglu's secular CHP party. "It was important for me to keep what was gained over the past 20 years in Turkey," company director Mehmet Emin Ayaz told AFP in Ankara.But Erdogan has caused growing consternation across the Western world because of his crackdowns on dissent and pursuit of a muscular foreign policy.
Turkey's troubled economy is benefiting from a crucial deferment of payment on Russian energy imports that helped Erdogan spend lavishly on campaign pledges this year.
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