Turks will vote on Sunday in one of the most consequential elections in modern Turkey’s 100-year history, which could oust President Tayyip Erdogan after 20 years in power and halt his government’s increasingly authoritarian path.
The vote will not only lead Turkey, a NATO-member country of 85 million, but also decide how it is governed, where its economy lies amid the deep cost of living crisis and the shape of its foreign policy, which has taken unexpected turn.
Opinion polls give a slight lead to Erdogan’s main rival, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who leads a coalition of six opposition parties, but if any of them fails to garner more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff will be held on May 28. Election will be held from