Turkey political race

 Turkey political race: What five additional long stretches of Erdogan would mean.

 

Following twenty years in power and an excess of twelve decisions, Turkey's dictator chief Recep Tayyip Erdogan knows how to function in a room. At a cabbies' show in Istanbul, they couldn't get enough of him. He controlled the group like the director of a symphony. They cheered and applauded - and booed the resistance - on the sign. The location was an Istanbul waterside convention center that he built while he was mayor. As the president gave his final address, the rally reached its climax: "One State, One Nation, One Flag, One Motherland." By that time, many elderly drivers were standing up, punching the air, or saluting with one arm.

 

Ayse Ozdogan, a headscarf-wearing conservative woman, had arrived early with her taxi driver husband to listen to her leader. On the seat next to her was a crutch. She has trouble walking, but she can't stay away. She grinned broadly and said, "Erdogan is everything to me." Before, we couldn't get to hospitals, but now we can easily get around. We have transportation. We have all of it. He has further developed streets. He has constructed mosques. He has fostered the country with fast trains and underground lines." Many people in the crowd were drawn to the nationalist message of the president, including Kadir Kavlioglu, 58, who has been driving a minibus for 40 years. We are steadily following the president because we are patriotic Americans.

 

He stated, "Whether the price of potatoes and onions rises or falls, we are with him every step of the way." My dear president is our expectation."At the point when Turks went to the surveys recently, they were not casting a ballot with their wallets. The cost of food is skyrocketing. The rate of inflation is brutal at 43%. However, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - who controls the economy and much else here - turned out in front with 49.5% of the vote. Analysts were perplexed by this, and the lesson learned was to be wary of opinion polls.

 

A nation divided His secular opposition leader rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, received 44.9%. As a result, the electorate in this polarized nation was split, with only 4% of the vote going to one side or the other. Sinan Ogan, an ultra-nationalist candidate, won by an unexpected 5.2%, sending the race to the second round on Sunday. Now, he backs President Erdogan.

 

Why have most citizens stayed with him notwithstanding the financial emergency, and the public authority's sluggish reaction to sad twin quakes in February, which killed somewhere around 50,000 individuals?

 

According to Professor Soli Ozel, who teaches international relations at Istanbul's Kadir Has University, "I think he is the [ultimate] Teflon politician." Additionally, he has a human touch. It can't be denied. He exudes strength. One thing Kilicdaroglu does not have is that."

 

Mr. Kilicdaroglu, supported by a six-party resistance partnership, used to ooze trust and commitment opportunity, and a majority rules system. In any case, after his first-round frustration, he made a sharp right turn. There is now more of a nationalist hardliner and less of a caring grandfather. One Turkish journalist claimed, "It's a race to the bottom." "I'm declaring here that I will send all exiles back home whenever I'm chosen President, period," said Mr. Kilicdaroglu at a new political race rally.

This includes more than three million Syrians who fled their homes because of the war. In Turkey, people respond well to this message.

 

Nationalism is already winning in Turkey, regardless of who becomes the next president. Mr. Erdogan's AK (Justice and Development) Party coalition has retained control in the most nationalistic and conservative parliament ever elected by voters.

 

Some young voters feel as though the vote has already been decided. Zeynep, 21, and Mert, 23, sit on a red couch under a rainbow flag, serve Turkish tea that is piping hot, and they worry about the future.

 

They both study psychology at Bogazici University, a reputable educational institution with a history of student protests that have since been put down. Their kinship started at the college's LGBTQ+ club, which has since been shut. Since 2015, gay pride parades have been illegal.

 

During the political race, the president has been focusing on the local area. " No LGBT individuals emerge from this country," he told a pressed convention in the city of Izmir. " We don't discolor our family structure. Our families are like that, so stand up straight like a man.

 

Mert, who wears earrings and has shoulder-length dark hair, says that the community is now more at risk.

 

"Erdogan himself, in each discourse, at each occasion he holds, has begun to depict us as targets," he said. " The state is turning us into enemies daily.

 

A New Century in Turkey "People are influenced by what the government says. Even in your family, you can see it in those closest to you. What happens next if this continues? We end up continuously living on alarm, consistently tense, consistently in dread," he said.

 

Zeynep - who has dull eyes and expressive hands - is as yet expecting another period yet realizes it may not come. " They have been here for 20 years, and I am 21 years old," she stated.

 

"I will be sad and scared if I don't see change. I want it. They will target us even more; they will take our privileges more. They will boycott a lot more things. However, we will still fight and take action.

 

With their nation at a crossroads, voters will head to the polls on Sunday for the first presidential runoff in history.

 

It is nearly a long time since Turkey was established by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a mainstream republic.

 

If he is re-elected, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is promising a new "Turkish century."

 

According to his backers, he will bring about more progress and a stronger Turkey. According to his detractors, there will be less Ataturk, more Islamization, and a gloomier future.

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