After 20 years of ever more intrusive control over the country, nobody in Turkey is indifferent about Erdogan. Now, a coalition of opposition parties is seeking to unseat him.
His supporters whooped and cheered, singing his name and reacting enthusiastically as the president, somewhat half-heartedly, waved at them from stage.
"I've been working with our party for 21 years and I tell you that we will win the election", she says. Turkey, she says,"is forging its own path" and"rethinking where we are, what we should do and how we should position ourselves". Across this political chasm both sides are expressing confidence, not just in winning the election but in doing so in the first round of voting.
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