On the Turkish election campaign trail in an outlying district of the beach town of Antalya, Uğur Poyraz kissed the head of a small child before speaking to local restaurant owners about the economy.
The general secretary of the technocratic and nationalist İyi party (Good party), a broad-shouldered lawyer with a shaved head and tattoos hidden under his shirt, was in full campaign mode, holding voters close, tilting his head to show he was listening, and clapping the men on the shoulders. His security detail – in full suit and aviators despite the heat of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast – clasped a handful of campaign leaflets.
