www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/23/turkey-election-earthquakes-erdogan-kilicdaroglu/
Turkey’s disaster management agency estimates that roughly 2 million people have migrated away from the earthquake zone. Survivors had until April 2 to register to vote in their new district but only 133,000 did, according to Turkey’s Supreme Election Council. Everyone else who wanted to vote had to travel back to the areas they’d left, some at their own expense, others funded
People showed their anger toward AKP [members of parliament], not President Erdogan
The main strategy of Erdogan in this election was to manage the perceptions, rather than providing solutions to the issues,” said Korkmaz, who grew up in Malatya, another badly battered province. For his supporters, she said, despite a prolonged economic crisis and years of rebuilding ahead, “President Erdogan is still standing as the supreme leader.”
