Turkey Election Results - May 19, 2023

No candidate received 50 percent of the vote in Turkey’s landmark presidential elections on May 14, so there will be a runoff on May 28. However, incumbent Recep Tayyib Erdogan fared much better than expected against his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, and Erdogan’s AK party alliance won a majority of seats in parliament. Turkish analysts Merve Tahiroglu and Mustafa Akyol talk with host Carol Castiel about why this occurred and suggest that Erdogan’s use of “identity politics” trumped his perceived mismanagement of the economy and the February earthquakes.