Turkey's Election: A Showdown for the Future of the Left and Erdogan's Rule.
TL;DR
The upcoming May 14 election in Turkey represents the best chance in a generation to depose President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has ruled for two decades with an increasingly iron fist. The opposition candidate, Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu, represents the best hope for an exhausted nation, but his appeals to the Kurds are mostly pragmatic, and he has formed the symbol of the ultranationalist, hard-right Grey Wolves paramilitary group, in a sop to the millions of voters who loathe any move toward recognition of minority rights.
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