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After the meeting, Yapicioglu announced his party would not select a presidential candidate but would support Erdogan’s candidacy.
But Erdogan’s recent incendiary comments about Israel opened a rift between Ankara and its Western allies that Scholz hoped to ameliorate.
But it has disrupted Erdogan’s attempts to seize momentum in the run-up to Turkey’s most important election in generations on May 14.
But with less than 100 days before the election, Erdogan’s rivals have yet to put forth a candidate to run against him.
Erdogan’s AK Party, along with its nationalist and Islamist partners, holds 322 out of the 600 seats in parliament.
Erdogan’s alliance, by contrast, is much more natural, and consists of parties with a similar political outlook.
Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/05/05/turkeys-2023-elections-the-beginning-of-the-post-erdogan-era/
Erdogan’s illness came at one of the more vulnerable moments of his two-decade rule.
Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/erdogan-returns-from-campaign-absence/
Erdogan’s increasing interventions to stabilise the lira, and his insistence on ultra-low interest rates, have piled pressure on Turkey’s fiscal budget and financial sector.
Source: https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/05/29/analysis-investors-hopes-for-turkeys/
Erdogan’s party had planned to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on the same day in mid-June, but could move them forward.
Erdogan’s response to the country’s devastating earthquake on Feb. 6 was painfully slow and uncoordinated.
He is looking to build on the opposition’s 2019 triumph when the CHP defeated Erdogan’s ruling AK Party in Istanbul and other big cities in local elections, thanks to support from other opposition party voters.
Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/05/06/turkeys-kilicdaroglu-exits-erodogans-shadow-in-election-race/
However, Erdogan’s unorthodox economic ideology led to an economic slowdown, skyrocketing and depreciation of the Turkish lira in recent years.
However, Kilicdaroglu, who is 74, was not chosen as Erdogan’s challenger without a fight.
It has been working to set up a united front to challenge Erdogan’s government, which critics say has undercut the country’s democracy.
Lira stability, however flimsily achieved, combined with a fiscal expansion that included sharply higher public sector wages and subsidies on energy costs, will help boost voting intentions for Erdogan’s ruling party.
Source: https://www.etftrends.com/tactical-allocation-channel/time-to-settle-your-tab-president-erdogan/
Most of Turkey’s pre-election polls underestimated Erdogan’s level of support in the first round.
Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkeys-bitter-election-battle-nears-decision-day/
Mr. Erdogan’s supporters, mostly Islamists, who see him as a strongman who stood up against the country’s secular Kemalist establishment, thronged the streets with Turkey’s national flags to celebrate their President’s lead.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/photos/in-frames-turkey-at-a-crossroads/article66876932.ece
Necmettin Erbakan was the founder of the National Vision movement from which Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) stems.
“On the one hand, there is President Erdogan’s vision of a security state, a monist society, of power consolidated in the hands of the executive,” he said.
Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/05/10/turkeys-closely-watched-vote-may-set-country-on-new-course/
On the sidelines of the NATO summit held in Vilnius in July, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced Erdogan’s intention to promptly submit Sweden’s NATO membership application to the parliament for approval.