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Incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in good position going into Turkey's runoff election, with his five percentage point lead over Kemal Kilicdaroglu, and just shy miss of a simple majority. Additionally, the eliminated candidate was an ultranationalist strongholder, whose votes are more…

In order to win Turkey's presidential election, incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan must win with a majority. However, after one of the four main candidates in the election dropped out, the likelihood that his main competitor Kemal Kilicdaroglu will win that majority increased. Making this election even…

Kemal Kilicdaroglu is doing everything he can to win Turkey's next Presidential election against incumbent, Tayyip Erdogan. His current strategy is to play in opposition to Erdogan in every way, including his policies, promises, and persona. Kilicdaroglu promises to bolster democracy in the…

President Tayyip Erdogan has a new opponent in the form of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who leads Turkey's opposition party. Kilicdaroglu is campaigning on the return of democracy and promises to limit the power of the Presidency that Erdogan has significantly bolstered during his tenure. He is preaching…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who came to power after a poor earthquake response in 1999, assured the Turkish people that the upcoming May Presidential election will go on as planned. While Erdogan has admitted to a lack of adequate response, it is clouded with a consistent re-emphasis on the…

In his presidential campaign in 2019, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan raved about laws he passed that forgive property owners for not updating construction codes. These same codes are said to have possibly alleviated some of the toll that the recent earthquake took on Turkish infrastructure, and…

The Turkish Presidential election is occurring in May, and current President Tayyip Erdogan's odds will be significantly influenced by his response to the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey earlier this week. Interestingly enough, he came to power in 1999 after a poor government earthquake…