Erdogan marks his sixth election win with 52.1 per cent of the vote in a tightly contested campaign against the most organized opposition Turkey has seen in decades
Twenty years after he first came to power on what had been a pro-Europe reformist platform, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared his sixth election victory Sunday night on far angrier and more nationalistic terms.
The election itself, like the first-round vote on May 14, appeared to be relatively free; the scattering of complaints about ballot interference were likely not enough to affect the outcome. That includes the media. During the 2010s, scores of editors and journalists were jailed or banished by Mr. Erdogan, and their newspapers and broadcasters shut down or put under state control.
And those were formidable. Turkey is in the midst of an economic collapse, with levels of inflation and currency devaluation far worse than those experienced in other developed countries during the months after the worst of the pandemic; much of the devastation has been blamed on Mr. Erdogan’s unorthodox monetary policies.
Mr. Erdogan began his campaign vowing to expel a million Syrians. Mr. Kilicdaroglu went further, promising to banish all of them and to make peace with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose chemical-warfare attacks against his people have been described as genocidal. Indeed, one of the most prevalent campaign posters for Mr. Kilicdaroglu’s coalition showed his photo below the stark red words “Syrians Will Leave.
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