ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted on Wednesday (Jan 18) that he would bring the date of Turkey's most consequential election in generations forward to May 14 in a bid to catch his rivals off guard. The announcement sets the stage for a vote that could either extend Erdogan's Islamic style of ru
ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted on Wednesday that he would bring the date of Turkey's most consequential election in generations forward to May 14 in a bid to catch his rivals off guard.
The NATO member's allies meanwhile remain uneasy about Erdogan's mercurial foreign policies - most recently exemplified by hisMany analysts think the election is too close to call. That May 14 vote was won by Adnan Menderes -- a prime minister who was toppled by a military junta in 1960 and executed a year later.
The telegenic 52-year-old beat Erdogan's ally in landmark 2019 polls in which the opposition also swept to power in the capital Ankara and Turkey's third-largest city Izmir. But the 74-year-old former civil servant's failure to light up opinion polls has caused divisions within the six opposition parties now allied against Erdogan.The six intend to hold their next discussions about a presidential candidate on Jan 26.
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