Turkish general election 2023

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• How Erdoğan beat the odds: Turkey’s election in charts

  President held together a coalition of conservative voters despite problems with economy

  
• Erdoğan poll lead prompts soul-searching for Turkey’s opposition

  Presidential challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu faces ‘uphill struggle’ with second-round vote only two weeks away

  
• Erdoğan holds upper hand as Turkish election goes to run-off

  Veteran incumbent is clear favourite over opposition challenger in second round on May 28

  
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fights for survival with strategy of hope and fear

  ‘Tall man’ of Turkish politics faces presidential election on Sunday that could end his two-decade rule

  
• Turkish presidential candidate İnce quits race days before vote

  Withdrawal set to boost opposition leader’s chances of unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

  
• A defining election for Turkey

  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces the most united opposition in years

  
• Turkey: Erdoğan faces his greatest electoral challenge yet

  After 21 years in power, the president is in a tight contest with a united opposition determined to change the course of the nation

  
• Erdoğan battles to retain power in Turkey

  Questions persist about whether the president would accept defeat and how the opposition might act in office

  
• Turkey’s election rivals vie for swing city in Erdoğan’s toughest race

  Runaway inflation has helped push voters towards the opposition in Mersin and elsewhere as poll approaches

  
• Erdoğan courts German Turks as he fights to hold on to power

  Turkish government has increased number of polling stations across Europe in its search for votes

  
• Turkey’s opposition leader vows to reverse slide to autocracy

  Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu tells the FT he will not let election be ‘stolen’ by President Erdoğan

  
• Berlin scuppers Erdoğan’s efforts to boost Turkish diaspora votes

  Ankara’s plan to double its polling stations in Germany is rejected as early voting begins

  
• Erdoğan forced to cancel events after falling ill weeks before Turkish vote

  Campaign events called off after TV broadcast featuring president was interrupted by illness

  
• ‘They’ve screwed the economy’: Turkey’s heartland voters tire of Erdoğan

  Faith in the veteran leader is dwindling but does not necessarily translate into support for the opposition

  
• ‘Kurds will be decisive’: Erdoğan opponent piles on Turkey election pressure from prison

  Selahattin Demirtaş says Turkey’s opposition has its best-ever chance to oust president in May polls

  
• Erdoğan’s authoritarian bargain collapses in Turkey

  Next month’s elections offer a chance for the united democratic opposition but victory will not be easy

  
• ‘Something is boiling’: Turkish football fans tackle Erdoğan

  President struggles to contain fallout over government’s response to February earthquake

  
• Turkey’s opposition candidate faces uphill battle to challenge Erdoğan

  Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is likely to struggle to convince voters, say political analysts

  
• Pro-Kurdish party switches to new banner to contest Turkish elections

  HDP will run parliamentary candidates on Green Left ticket to sidestep potential legal ban

  
• Erdoğan to slash Turkey’s energy bills ahead of tough election

  Government seeks to win favour among voters by reducing costs for consumers and businesses