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June 16, 2023

How Recep Tayyip Erdogan Held onto the Turkish Presidency Despite a Faltering Economy

Kemal Kilicdaroglu isn’t Turkey’s Barack Obama.

Last month, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was reelected president of Turkey, a position he has held since 2014. The race was a close one in which no candidate won a majority of the votes, necessitating an unprecedented runoff that delivered the victory to the incumbent. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak explains how Erdogan outmaneuvered his main opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu:

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