In Turkey, 18 years under Erdoğan
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, February 10, 2021. via REUTERS - PRESIDENTIAL PRESS OFFICE
By: Anne Andlauer
4 min
18 years ago to the day, on March 9, 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won a by-election in Siirt, in south-eastern Turkey.
This victory immediately enabled the founder of the AKP - the Justice and Development Party - to take up the post of Prime Minister, four months after his party's surprise victory in the legislative elections.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - now president - has never left power again.
18 is the age of majority, the age to vote.
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This is the age of millions of young Turks who have known nothing but Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
How do they see his years in power and how do they see his political future?
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