Turkey's endless election cycle
With Turkey's imminent local elections, the opposition camp is split between hopeful optimists and cynical pessimists.
Turks are addicted to going to the polls. On Sunday, they will go once again.
They did it twice in 2015: The June parliamentary election didn't give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the support he would need in two years to pass the constitutional amendments required for his executive presidency ambitions. So he called for snap elections — a do-over. He got the results he wanted Nov. 1.
In 2016, Turkey’s polarized society was extremely busy with the developments unfolding in the aftermath of the July 15 botched coup.
In 2017, people lined up to vote on the constitutional referendum to change the country from a parliamentary democracy to an executive presidency. That was followed by the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2018.
