After Turkey’s catastrophic quake, this could have been Erdogan’s last election. Instead, he’s poised to win
CNN — Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rise to power was ushered in by the contentious political aftermath of the 1999 Izmit earthquake. So when another devastating quake laid waste to large swathes of southeast Turkey earlier this year, many observers expected the president’s two-decade rule to end with a full circle. Instead, Erdogan appears …
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Egypt Independent
May 24, 2023
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