The High Stakes of Turkey's Upcoming Elections.

Turkey's upcoming election on May 14th is of historical significance as it falls 100 years after the foundation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's secular republic. The election will weigh heavily on security in Europe and the Middle East, with the potential to define Turkey's role in the NATO alliance, its relationship with the US, the EU, and Russia, migration policy, Ankara's role in the war in Ukraine, and how it handles tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean. The opposition is confident it can unfreeze European Union accession talks by introducing liberalizing reforms in terms of rule of law, media freedoms, and depoliticization of the judiciary.