Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey’s president
The best chance in a decade to repair its democracy is lost
In Sekeroba, a village on the outskirts of the Nur Mountains in southern Turkey, a woman stood outside the rubble of her former house and waved a Turkish flag mounted on a long metal bar. “We love him,” she said, referring to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s longtime leader. “For the call to prayer, for our homes, and for our headscarves.” Cars screamed past, honking approvingly. A group of men fired shotgun rounds in the air.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Five more years”
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