Six-party alliance led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu holds slight lead in opinion polls but faces entrenched incumbent with fiercely loyal base of support
Turks have started voting in one of the most consequential elections in modern Turkey’s 100-year history – an election that could unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after 20 years in power and halt his government’s increasingly authoritarian path.
The vote will decide not only who leads Turkey, a Nato member of 85 million people, but also how it is governed, where its economy is headed amid a deep cost of living crisis, and the shape of its foreign policy, which has taken unpredictable turns.
