Turkey’s election is widely considered to be the most important in the world this year – as a fight for the future of Turkish democracy, a referendum on a strongman populist leader, and a possible shift in Turkey’s influential role on the world stage.
After a long and tense vote count, neither Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – the dominant figure in Turkish politics for 20 years – nor his main rival, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, reached the 50% threshold for outright victory. They will go to a runoff in two weeks’ time.
