![]() ![]() The election result, including a win for Erdoğan in regions affected by the earthquakes, suggested that among the electorate he had risen above criticisms often directed at his Justice and Development party (AKP) even if the conditions causing objections to his rule remained. Just three months before, his presidential sedan weaved between mounds of rubble where grieving citizens hunted for their relatives’ bodies after two powerful earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey.Īcross the country, citizens complained of a biting cost of living crisis, one that Erdoğan recently attempted to remedy temporarily by providing free natural gas for a month and hiking the minimum wage a second time shortly before the election. It seems we will keep seeing this disinformation across television and social media.”Įrdoğan’s ability to secure a third term in an increasingly polarised country, against a concerted challenge to his leadership, had previously seemed in doubt. “This result will tempt Erdoğan to say he can stay the course,” said Soner Cagaptay, a biographer of the Turkish leader and an analyst at the US thinktank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.Ĭagaptay pointed to Erdoğan’s comfortable 4%-winning margin, the result of a divisive election campaign during which both sides deployed misinformation and the incumbent labelled his opponents supporters of terrorism, securing a mandate to continue the same rogue foreign policy decisions and unconventional economic policies of recent years.Ĭan Semercioğlu of the factchecking organisation Teyit said: “There was a huge amount of disinformation deployed before the elections. Turkish lira hits record low against the dollar
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