Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hopes to extend his rule into a third decade in a May 14 election but faces his toughest test yet at the ballot box, with his popularity hit by a cost-of-living crisis driven by runaway inflation.
hopes to extend his rule into a third decade in a May 14 election but faces his toughest test yet at the ballot box, with his popularity hit by a cost-of-living crisis driven by runaway inflation.
August 2001: He establishes the Justice and Development Party, or AK Party , and is elected chairman. February 2008: Parliament passes an amendment drafted by the AKP and the Nationalist Movement Party that lifts a ban on wearing head scarves on university campuses. December 2013: Erdogan faces a sprawling corruption investigation involving senior officials, cabinet members and the head of a state-owned bank. He calls it a "judicial coup" organised by Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric who was a former ally before a power struggle prompted a falling out.
August 2016: Erdogan authorizes a major military offensive into Syria - Turkey's first big incursion into another country in decades - marking the first of four cross-border operations. March 2019: Nationwide municipal elections produce Erdogan's first electoral defeat in nearly two decades. Candidates from the opposition alliance of the Republican People's Party and the IYI Party defeat AKP mayoral candidates in cities including Ankara and Istanbul.
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