Erdoğan Wins Reelection in Turkey
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, May 28, Turkey held a bitterly contested run-off election, with incumbent presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan winning reelection against opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Lawfare Legal Fellow Saraphin Dhanani sat down with Soli Özel, Senior Lecturer at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and a columnist at Habertürk daily newspaper, to discuss what was at stake in this election and the future of Turkey as Erdoğan’s next five-year term marks his 25th year in higher office.
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| 0:29.0 | I guess you do have a good ability problem as well. |
| 0:37.0 | I think a lot of curts were offended by the association with Mr. Osta |
| 0:44.0 | and with the appropriation of such a harsh language. |
| 0:50.0 | And some of them did not go back to the polls. |
| 0:56.0 | About 325,000 less people went to the polls in Istanbul. |
| 1:00.0 | And it is estimated that about a good chunk of those in million Istanbul |
| 1:07.0 | theites who did not go to the polls in the first round also were Kurdish. |
| 1:12.0 | So that didn't work. |
| 1:15.0 | I mean, ultimately, or maybe you can say it did work because it raised Mr. |
| 1:20.0 | Kurdish that I was share of the vote to 48%. |
| 1:24.0 | And Mr. Erdogan got 52%. |
| 1:27.0 | But it was probably, again, as you said, maybe too little too late or not very convincing. |
| 1:34.0 | So in my judgment, by the second round, the fate or the result of the elections |
| 1:41.0 | were basically a foregone conclusion. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm Sarah Fingenani, legal fellow at LawFair. |
| 1:47.0 | And this is the LawFair podcast May 31, 2023. |
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