Turks will vote on Sunday in one of the most consequential elections in modern Turkey's 100-year history, which could unseat President Tayyip Erdogan after 20 years in power and halt his government's increasingly authoritarian path.
A view of banners of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition alliance, in Ankara, Turkey, May 13, 2023. REUTERS/Cagla GurdoganErdogan loss could return Turkey to secular-democratic pastErdogan is a master campaigner with loyal following
Voters will also elect a new parliament, likely a tight race between the People's Alliance comprising Erdogan's conservative Islamist-rooted AK Party and the nationalist MHP and others, and Kilicdaroglu's Nation Alliance formed of six opposition parties, including his secularist Republican People's Party , established by Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.will open at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. .
The HDP has declared its support for Kilicdaroglu in the presidential race. It is entering the parliamentary elections under the emblem of the small Green Left Party due to a court case filed by a top prosecutor seeking to ban the HDP over links to Kurdish militants, which the party denies.Erdogan, 69, is a powerful orator and master campaigner who has pulled out all the stops on the campaign trail as he battles to survive his toughest political test.
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