Turkish earthquake survivors reconsider election loyalty to Erdogan FMTNews FMTWorld
Elections in May could prove the toughest of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s more than two decades in power.
“The earthquake definitely changes our opinion because the first responders and tents were very late to arrive,” he said. The deadliest disaster in Turkey’s modern history devastated cities and towns and killed tens of thousands of people a month ago, mostly in a conservative stronghold that has heavily backed Erdogan and the AKP for two decades.
But people also struggled to imagine voting for opposition parties and their newly-named candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. The region voted 65% or more for the AKP and its nationalist ally the MHP in the last election in 2018. Many residents told Reuters that opposition parties were late to name a candidate and that they would only support one with nationalist roots, such as Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas – who is slated to be one of Kilicdaroglu’s vice presidents should he win.
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