How Erdoğan’s Populism Won Again

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ID6287789
AuthorsBerk Esen (0000-0002-6759-8903), Sebnem Gumuscu (0000-0002-9180-421X)
Year2023
Volume34
Issue3
Pages21-32
Publication date2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2023.a900430
OpenAlexW4382044724
LanguageEN
Citations received37

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won a third presidential term in May 2023 in a close race that constituted the opposition’s best chance ever to defeat the long-serving president at the polls. The election was neither free nor fair, but it was real. Erdoğan coupled sophisticated strategies with ethnoreligious themes to win the race against a backdrop of rampant inflation and disastrous relief efforts following the massive earthquakes that struck Turkey in early 2023. The opposition rallied behind a joint candidate, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, but failed to capitalize on Erdoğan’s vulnerabilities. Their campaign remained weak and uncoordinated, giving little reason to long-time Erdogan supporters to defect

Arms race · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Presidential election · Presidential system · Sociology · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration · Turkey's Politics and Society

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