{"id":4459,"date":"2023-05-15T05:16:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2023-05-15T05:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:16:52","slug":"turkey-elections-who-will-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4459","title":{"rendered":"TURKEY ELECTIONS -WHO WILL WIN ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".sa8fni44w0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6460fab91719d30b241d00db.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">After 21 years of Erdogan government, Turks are making a choice on where there country is going.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sa8fni44w0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6460fab91719d30b241d00db.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">Do they stay the course, under a charismatic, authoritarian leader who is credited with modernising their country with big-ticket projects &#8211; but who is also blamed for cracking down on their freedoms and removing power from parliament and taking it for himself?<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sa8fni44w0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6460fab91719d30b241d00db.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">Or do they go with his rival, an opposition leader who has won backing from many of the anti-Erdogan parties and from former Erdogan colleagues?<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sa8fni44w0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6460fab91719d30b241d00db.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, has a history of election defeat but this time could be different.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sa8fni44w0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6460fab91719d30b241d00db.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">He promises to return powers to parliament and end the five-year-old executive presidency.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sa8fni44w0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6460fab91719d30b241d00db.0.6.0.0:$post_6\">He is also keen to revive Turkey\u2019s previously close ties to the West, both the US and the EU.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sa8fni44w0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6460fab91719d30b241d00db.0.6.0.0:$post_7\">For the outside world too, this is a decisive moment.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sa8fni44w0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6460fab91719d30b241d00db.0.6.0.0:$post_7\">SOURCE BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 21 years of Erdogan government, Turks are making a choice on where there country is going. Do they stay the course, under a charismatic, authoritarian leader who is credited with modernising their country with big-ticket projects &#8211; but who is also blamed for cracking down on their freedoms and removing power from parliament and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}