Incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will go head-to-head with leftist opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Sunday after neither failed to reach the threshold in May 14’s election. Here's more.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People's Party and the presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance, speaking in Adana, Turkey, on Thursday. notes that this is the first time in Turkey’s history that the presidential election has come down to a runoff.
The first-round result indicated a clear drop in public support for Erdogan compared with previous elections. Speaking outside his party’s headquarters in Ankara, Erdogan said that although the results were not yet finalized, this did not change the fact that “we are the preference of our nation.”A clerk counts ballots on Wednesday at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., after voting ends in the second round of the presidential election. Whoever is elected as Turkey’s next president will oversee serious domestic and international issues that will ultimately affect the country’s population. Turkey is a member of NATO, and the next president will also have a say in the future of the military alliance — both as to who can join and how the organization reacts to any potential attacks on member states. Domestically, Turkey is still suffering from the devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that hit its southern region in February. Towns and cities were left in
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