Breaking news: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared headed to victory late Sunday after facing his hardest election in years, according to vote counts by state-run and opposition-affiliated news agencies.
that Erdogan’s critics saw as a power grab. Kilicdaroglu, 74, also campaigned on judicial independence and pledged to Turks that “you will be able to criticize me freely and without fear”; under Erdogan, tens of thousands of people are investigated every year for the crime of “insulting” the president.But both campaigns were also as toxic as any in recent memory, with naked appeals to nationalism and xenophobia.
During a trying campaign season that divided families across Turkey, the couple had not argued about the candidates. “We don’t speak about politics,” Fatih said, laughing. “We don’t interact with each other on religious issues,” Kezban added. “We love and respect each other.”
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