‘Erdoğan is too nationalistic’: readers on their vote in Turkey’s election

Supporters wave flags and banners as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan makes an address at his party headquarters in Ankara, 15 May 2023. Photograph: Necati Savas/EPA

Turkey will go to the polls again in a fortnight after neither of the leading candidates managed to secure 50% of the vote in the country’s presidential elections on Sunday.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Justice and Development party (AKP) received 49.51% of the vote, the head of the country’s election council said, while his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the Republican People’s party (CHP), gained 44.88%. The third-placed candidate, the ultra-nationalist Sinan Oğan, won 5.17%.