Inflation is raging, Erdogan's approval is down, and anger is building at his Islamic-rooted party's use of the courts to prosecute dissent and sideline political rivals. theSun theSundaily inflation turkey unity erdogan politics
Turkey’s President and leader of the Justice and Development Party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a meeting to address the parliamentary group of his party at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara on January 4, 2023. AFPPIX: On the face of it, the timing could not be better for Turkey's fractured opposition to end President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade grip on power in elections due by June.
“The Turkish opposition seems very disorganised,“ one Western diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity. “What is their programme?”The opposition’s campaign “appears abstract and distant” to voters, especially in a country where the media is heavily controlled by the government, he wrote last month.
“If you dig deeper, they are different. But they don’t really have to talk about policy. Instead, the campaign can focus on platitudes that mask differences,“ Stein told AFP.The troubled fate of Istanbul's popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, one of Erdogan's most internationally recognised rivals, highlights the opposition's plight.
Stein said Imamoglu’s legal battles illustrate “how far Erdogan is prepared to go to ensure he doesn’t lose”.The court's verdict caught Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of Imamoglu's main opposition CHP party, in Berlin, where he was trying to rally Western backing for his own candidacy. She rushed to Istanbul in a show of solidarity with the mayor, giving him a hug on stage and raising his hand in victory during an impromptu protest rally.
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