{"id":114501,"date":"2023-05-29T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/what-erdogans-re-election-means-for-turkey-and-the-west\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:10:26","slug":"what-erdogans-re-election-means-for-turkey-and-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/what-erdogans-re-election-means-for-turkey-and-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"What Erdo\u011fan\u2019s re-election means for Turkey and the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The consequences of his victory over secular rival Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu will reverberate across Turkey and the world. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan claimed victory in the presidential election on Sunday, extending his rule into a third decade. With 99% of ballot boxes counted, Erdo\u011fan has secured 52% of the vote putting him well ahead of rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu&#8217;s 48%, according to state-owned news agency Anadolu. The election has been seen as one of the most consequential in Turkey&#8217;s recent history, with the opposition believing it had a good chance of unseating Erdo\u011fan who presided over a bruising cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But what impact will his victory have on Turkey and the West? Already the longest-serving leader in the history of the Turkish Republic, Erdo\u011fan has consolidated power during his time in office, establishing a presidential system for himself. Critics say the 69-year-old has shifted Turkey away from its democratic foundations towards authoritarian rule. He crushed anti-government protests and evaded a corruption investigation into his inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan has taken control of most of Turkey\u2019s institutions and sidelined liberals and critics. In its World Report 2022, Human Rights Watch said Erdo\u011fan\u2019s AK party (AKP has set back Turkey\u2019s human rights record by decades. Ilke Toyg\u00fcr, professor of European Geopolitics at the University Carlos III of Madrid said a victory could see Erdo\u011fan buckle down even more. &#8220;I would even expect the more frightening attitudes when it comes to democracy and when it comes to foreign policy,&#8221; she told Euronews in May.<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan is popular among conservative and religious voters. He has defended the rights of conservative Muslims after decades of a resolutely secular regime, allowing women to wear the headscarf in public buildings, such as universities and civil service, where they were banned. Erdo\u011fan may pursue a more radical policy in the coming period as he broadened his alliance with Islamist groups, such as H\u00fcda Par and Yeniden Refah before the elections. His government may come under pressure from these parties to pursue more Islamist policies.<\/p>\n<p>The election came amid a damaging economic crisis, worsened by the devastating earthquakes in February. Economists say Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s unorthodox policy of low interest rates despite surging prices drove inflation to 85% last year, with the lira plummeting to one-tenth of its value against the dollar over the last decade. Analysts predict Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s first priority will be to fix the economy, but no major changes are expected in the economic model ahead of local elections in 2024. &#8220;There are lots of economic problems in Turkey. So this is the weakest point of the Erdo\u011fan regime,&#8221; economist Arda Tunca told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat of K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, who promised to set the country on a more democratic and collaborative path, will likely be cheered in Moscow. However, it could be mourned in Western capitals as Turkey has taken a more confrontational and independent stance in foreign affairs.Under Erdo\u011fan, Turkey has flexed military power in the Middle East and beyond, forging closer ties with Russia. Meanwhile, relations with the European Union and the United States become increasingly strained. &#8220;Turkey is breaking away from the West, although it is a NATO member spiritually, Turkey is not a part of NATO anymore,&#8221; said economist Arda Tunca.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/28\/what-erdogans-re-election-means-for-turkey-and-the-west\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/what-erdogans-re-election-means-for-turkey-and-the-west\/\">What Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s re-election means for Turkey and the West<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2878,10138,2879,606,607,608,3264],"class_list":["post-114501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-erdogan","tag-reelection","tag-turkey","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-west"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}