Voting has opened in Turkey in an election where President Tayyip Erdogan faces the biggest political challenge of his two-decade rule.
Turkey has many political parties which have coalesced into several electoral alliances.The People's Alliance was formed ahead of the 2018 election by Erdogan's AKP and the MHP, and won both the presidential and parliamentary votes.
Since then, it has been joined by the New Welfare Party of Fatih Erbakan, the son of Erdogan's mentor Necmettin Erbakan, as well as the right-wing Great Unity Party.The main opposition bloc, the Nation Alliance, backs Kilicdaroglu for president. Formed ahead of the 2018 election, it initially comprised the CHP, the center-right IYI Party, the Islamist Felicity Party and the Democrat Party .
The Workers Party of Turkey joined the alliance after becoming a vocal opposition figure after the Feb. 6 earthquakes. The alliance also includes the Green Left Party , under whose banner HDP candidates will run to circumvent its potential closure due to a lawsuit.The vote will decide not only who leads Turkey, a NATO-member country of 85 million, but also how it is governed, where its economy is headed amid a deep cost of living crisis, and the shape of its foreign policy.and brought the judicial system under its sway, a charge denied by officials.
Turkey's economy is also in focus. Economists say Erdogan's calls for low interest rates sent inflation soaring to 85% last year, and the lira slumping to one tenth of its value against the dollar over the last decade.
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