Turkey Runoff Results - June 02, 2023

Incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defeated opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, in the May 28 presidential runoff, clinching another five-year term in office. Erdogan’s 52-48 margin of victory illustrates a deeply divided electorate and left hopeful followers of the opposition alliance in a state of despondency. Turkish analysts, Merve Tahiroglu, Turkey Program director at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the CATO Institute, discuss the myriad domestic and international political implications of Erdogan’s victory with host Carol Castiel.