Polls have opened in Turkey’s presidential runoff as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fights for a historic third term
Erdogan is going head-to-head with opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a 74-year-old bureaucrat and leader of the left-leaning CHP. In the first round of voting on May 14, Erdogan secured a nearly five-point lead over Kilicdaroglu but fell short of the 50% threshold needed to win. The president’s parliamentary bloc won a majority of seats in the parliamentary race on the same day.
They also argued that the earthquake response underscored Erdogan’s alleged hollowing out of government entities in his bid to consolidate power. The country’s financial crisis — which saw the currency plummet and prices soar — is also partially blamed on Erdogan’s policies. The president suppressed interest rates leaving inflation unfettered, critics argued.
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