Tag: Turkey Elections

By Latheef Farook In the recent presidential elections in Turkey Erdogan won run of 52 percent and secured five more years in power . Commenting on the election results Erdogan said "the winner of this election is all the 85 million-strong Turkish nation". Almost half the electorate in this deeply polarised country did not back his authoritarian vision of Turkey. Thus Turkey remains a divided nation today.His call for unity sounded hollow as his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu denounced it as “the most unfair election in recent years”. Kilicdaroglu said the president’s political...