• About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
Thursday, October 23, 2025
  • Login
The Vaultz News
  • Top Stories
  • News
    • General News
    • Education
    • Health
    • Opinions
  • Economics
    • Economy
    • Finance
      • Banking
      • Insurance
      • Pension
    • Securities/Markets
  • Business
    • Agribusiness
    • Vaultz Business
    • Extractives/Energy
    • Real Estate
  • World
    • Africa
    • America
    • Europe
    • UK
    • USA
    • Asia
    • Around the Globe
  • Innovation
    • Technology
    • Wheels
  • Entertainment
  • 20MOBPL2DNew
  • Jobs & Scholarships
    • Job Vacancies
    • Scholarships
No Result
View All Result
The Vaultz News
  • Top Stories
  • News
    • General News
    • Education
    • Health
    • Opinions
  • Economics
    • Economy
    • Finance
      • Banking
      • Insurance
      • Pension
    • Securities/Markets
  • Business
    • Agribusiness
    • Vaultz Business
    • Extractives/Energy
    • Real Estate
  • World
    • Africa
    • America
    • Europe
    • UK
    • USA
    • Asia
    • Around the Globe
  • Innovation
    • Technology
    • Wheels
  • Entertainment
  • 20MOBPL2DNew
  • Jobs & Scholarships
    • Job Vacancies
    • Scholarships
No Result
View All Result
The Vaultz News
No Result
View All Result

Erdogan’s Defeat Is A Win For Liberal Democracy

M.Cby M.C
May 10, 2023
Reading Time: 4 mins read
M.Cby M.C
in Europe
0
Erdogan’s Defeat Is A Win For Liberal Democracy

The fate of Erdogan will be determine by the upcoming general elections on the May 14

Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, was considered one of the most influential leader of the early twenty-first century. In his two-decade reign, he has changed the face of his country and established a political style that foreshadowed the advent of numerous nationalist extremists worldwide.

Researchers have spoken boldly of freedom expansion around the world in 2003, the year Erdogan and the religiously minded Justice and Development Party, or AKP, won power, and praised the aroma of change in authoritarian Turkey. Recent findings have placed Turkey at the pivot of a global democratic recession, that has endured for more than a decade.

Erdogan
Recep Teyyip Erdogan, President of Turkey. He has ruled the European Arabian country for two decades (2003-2023). He face a tough elections this weekend, as his approval ratings has dropped significantly.

Erdogan’s own progress over the last 20 years reflects the pattern of world politics at the time. As prime minister in the first decade of the twentieth century, he was a facilitating reformer who fueled an economic change and growth.

RelatedPosts

Louvre Director Admits Security Failure

Kharkiv Kindergarten Struck By Russian Drone

Louvre Heist Losses Estimated Around €88m

As Turkish hopes of joining the European Union faded and the West suffered economic crisis, he shifted his to become a religious nationalist, focusing on undoing the repressive legacy of decades of Kemalist secularism. Following the Arab Spring crises in 2011, he used his soft-Islamist influence to promote a Turkish style of democracy for the region.

Erdogan’s “neo-Ottoman” discourse had little chance in the face of a wave of Arab counterrevolutions, and as long as he was in government, it became vividly clear that, the president’s entire goal was to retain and maintain power.

By the 2020s, Erdogan’s style reflected something entirely different, a template for indefinite electoral autocracy, based on majoritarian grandstanding, divisive cultural wars, anti-Western grievances, and suspicions about domestic and foreign plots, not forgetting seizure of key government agencies, oppression and detainment of opposing parties and civil society members, and the gradual downfall of free press in Turkey.

ADVERTISEMENT

A Swedish Institute has released a report detailing a decade-long process of autocratic rule around the world, with the world’s electoral autocracies expanding to 56 countries by 2023. Erdogan’s Turkey is an obvious leading member of the pack, shaping an illiberal course followed by conservative regimes such as Hungary and India, and mobilizing populist rage for a political mandate, long before the Trumps and Bolsonaros assumed power in their respective countries.

The May 14 General Elections

As voters goes to the polls in the first round of presidential and legislative elections, Erdogan and the AKP are facing the toughest test to their reign ever. Polls project that, Erdogan falls behind Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the affable 74-year-old Presidential Candidate endorsed by a coalition of opposition parties.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the main contender to Erdogan’s Presidency. He is the leader of a coalition of opposition parties.

Kilicdaroglu, a member of the secularist Republican People’s Party, or CHP, has positioned his candidacy, as that of a one-term public servant intent on restoring Turkish democracy and demolishing the authoritarian rule that was introduced by Erdogan in a 2017 referendum.

Given Erdogan’s command of the reins of power and control over the mainstream press, the chances are still stacked against him. However, the opposition’s appeal has never been more intense during Erdogan’s presidency.

turkey earthquake 1
The February 7.6 and 7.8 magnitude of earthquake in Turkey, claimed more than 50,000 lives. Government officials have been blamed for their failure to effectively examine building for earthquake proofing.

This has been tragically highlighted by the outrage over the loose government oversight in the aftermath of the February catastrophic earthquake, which claimed over 50,000 lives in southern Turkey and destroyed countless of buildings that experts suspect, officials failed to effectively examine for earthquake proofing.

More so, Turkey’s new generation of voters, most of whom only have encountered life under Erdogan, appears to be campaigning for change. Some analysts have cast Kilicdaroglu as a figure similar to President Biden, who campaigned on ending the rancor and division of the Trump era, and as a bridge to a political generation.

A win for the Turkish opposition and the demise of Erdogan’s dictatorship might have far-reaching implications. There may be a major change in national economic policy. In a prior era, Erdogan could campaign on his economic achievements, but years of unorthodox tactics to boost the Turkish economy, has led to a rising cost-of-living crisis, which may lose him votes.

On the global level, his defeat might lead to a better relationship between Turkey and the West, softens Turkey’s stands on Sweden’s NATO membership, and bring Turkey’s contradictory attitude on Russia-Ukraine conflict closer to NATO mainstream.

READ ALSO:Imran Khan Arranged Before Court In Islamabad

Tags: EarthquakeelectionErdoganKemal KilicdarogluTurkey
Please login to join discussion
Previous Post

BoG Contemplates Another Policy Rate Hikes To Curb Inflation

Next Post

Jury Finds Trump Liable For Sexual Abuse

Subscription Form

Related Posts

Louvre Director, Laurence des Cars.
Europe

Louvre Director Admits Security Failure

October 22, 2025
Ukraine Delegation Arrives In Istanbul For Second Round Of Talks With Russian Officials
Europe

Kharkiv Kindergarten Struck By Russian Drone

October 22, 2025
A member of a forensic team inspects a window believed to have been used in a robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, on October 19, 2025.
Europe

Louvre Heist Losses Estimated Around €88m

October 21, 2025
Trump Rebuffs Putin’s Offer To Aid Israel-Iran Conflict Mediation
Europe

European Leaders Support Trump’s Call For Ukraine Peace Talks

October 21, 2025
Former French President Found Guilty Of Criminal Association
Europe

Sarkozy Begins Five-Year Jail Term For Criminal Conspiracy

October 21, 2025
Russia Accuses Ukraine Of Postponing Prisoner Exchange
Europe

Zelenskyy Skeptical Of Budapest As Trump-Putin Meeting Venue

October 20, 2025
GNPC and SONATRACH Advance Strategic Partnership
Extractives/Energy

GNPC, SONATRACH Forge to Boost Energy Research and Innovation in Africa 

by Prince AgyapongOctober 23, 2025
Ato Forson Praised for Professionalism and Economic Discipline
General News

Elikem Kotoko Wants Akufo-Addo in Court Over National Cathedral Scandal

by Silas Kafui AssemOctober 23, 2025
Galamsey: Prestea Huni-Valley MCE Laments over Destructions
Extractives/Energy

Galamsey: Prestea Huni-Valley MCE Laments over Destructions

by Bless Banir YarayeOctober 23, 2025
Tamale South MP Calls for “Minority Day” in Parliament
General News

Tamale South MP Calls for “Minority Day” in Parliament

by Richmond EllehOctober 23, 2025
ORAL Must Remain and Succeed – CDD-Ghana Fellow
General News

ORAL Must Remain and Succeed – CDD-Ghana Fellow

by Emmanuel Tibila BoasahOctober 23, 2025
State Department Defends Decision To Revoke Chinese Student Visas
USA

Rubio Heads To Israel In Support Of Ceasefire Implementation

by Comfort AmpomaaOctober 23, 2025
GNPC and SONATRACH Advance Strategic Partnership
Ato Forson Praised for Professionalism and Economic Discipline
Galamsey: Prestea Huni-Valley MCE Laments over Destructions
Tamale South MP Calls for “Minority Day” in Parliament
ORAL Must Remain and Succeed – CDD-Ghana Fellow
State Department Defends Decision To Revoke Chinese Student Visas

Recent News

GNPC and SONATRACH Advance Strategic Partnership

GNPC, SONATRACH Forge to Boost Energy Research and Innovation in Africa 

October 23, 2025
Ato Forson Praised for Professionalism and Economic Discipline

Elikem Kotoko Wants Akufo-Addo in Court Over National Cathedral Scandal

October 23, 2025
Galamsey: Prestea Huni-Valley MCE Laments over Destructions

Galamsey: Prestea Huni-Valley MCE Laments over Destructions

October 23, 2025
Tamale South MP Calls for “Minority Day” in Parliament

Tamale South MP Calls for “Minority Day” in Parliament

October 23, 2025
ORAL Must Remain and Succeed – CDD-Ghana Fellow

ORAL Must Remain and Succeed – CDD-Ghana Fellow

October 23, 2025
State Department Defends Decision To Revoke Chinese Student Visas

Rubio Heads To Israel In Support Of Ceasefire Implementation

October 23, 2025
The Vaultz News

Copyright © 2025 The Vaultz News. All rights reserved.

Navigate Site

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Top Stories
  • News
    • General News
    • Education
    • Health
    • Opinions
  • Economics
    • Economy
    • Finance
      • Banking
      • Insurance
      • Pension
    • Securities/Markets
  • Business
    • Agribusiness
    • Vaultz Business
    • Extractives/Energy
    • Real Estate
  • World
    • Africa
    • America
    • Europe
    • UK
    • USA
    • Asia
    • Around the Globe
  • Innovation
    • Technology
    • Wheels
  • Entertainment
  • 20MOBPL2D
  • Jobs & Scholarships
    • Job Vacancies
    • Scholarships

Copyright © 2025 The Vaultz News. All rights reserved.

Discover the Details behind the story

Get an in-depth analysis of the news from our top editors

Enter your email address