“This man has been in power since 2003. He controls all of the media. He controls all of the state institutions. Everybody here knows he's going to most likely win that runoff.”
loves Election Day in Turkey. “The amazing thing about Turkish Election Day is that it’s really like a jubilee. People love to vote here,” Hansen said. She lives in and reports from Istanbul. I spoke with her on Monday, the day after Turks went to the polls. The turnout was a stunning 92 percent. “It was incredible.”
When the earthquake happened in February, everyone who knows Turkey woke up thinking about the 1999 earthquake, and the fact that that had helped bring Erdogan to power. And now it was possible that an earthquake would bring him out of power, because in 1999 there was a massive earthquake. It was in the Marmara Region, which is where Istanbul is, and 17,000 people died.
Erdogan managed to create this wealthy business class that was profiting so much off of his rule. He was also able to take those kickbacks and those bribes and create this incredible party machinery. And he was able to give jobs to the poor and distribute money through these religious charity networks. So what you have then is such a stable of devoted voters. It’s not just about the ideology. It’s not just about religion, or because they saw Erdogan as a hero, although he is a charismatic hero.
On top of the earthquake, Erdogan has also been wrestling with crushing inflation and an economic nosedive. And everyone is talking about it.
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