To hear President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the campaign trail, Turkey's municipal elections on Sunday may be a fight for survival against foreign ...
ISTANBUL: To hear President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the campaign trail, Turkey's municipal elections on Sunday may be a fight for survival against foreign and domestic enemies trying to destroy the country.No one expects a major defeat for Erdogan's AKP. But with Turkey's economy in recession and inflation in double digits, the ruling party faces a tough battle to capture key cities like Istanbul and the capital Ankara.
Opposition parties hope economic woes may translate into a victory against Erdogan in key municipalities such as Istanbul and Ankara where polls show a tight race."Losing either city now would be a huge symbolic blow to his power in Turkey," said Soner Cagaptay, an analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy."He has gone for a strategy of pulling out all the stops."Erdogan's AKP has won every vote since first coming to power in 2002.
Erdogan has sometimes appeared on the defensive over the economy, even arguing long lines forming at the municipal food stalls were a sign of"prosperity", when the opposition portrayed them as a mark of"poverty". After the attack on Muslims at two New Zealand mosques, Erdogan played clips of a video made by the gunman at his rallies.
Main opposition party CHP and smaller nationalist group Iyi party, are supporting the same candidate in Turkey's two major cities.
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