A powerful woman is challenging President Erdogan – could she shape Turkey’s future?

It was a harsh evaluation of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a subject that’s close to and expensive to him, and one upon which he prides himself: worldwide relations.

“He’s all the time speaking about different leaders as ‘my expensive buddy’ or ‘my beloved fellow chief’,” the opposition political social gathering chief Meral Aksener stated to a crowd in Istanbul on Thursday. “In international coverage, respect is nice. In friendship, there might be love. However in international coverage, the primary query he all the time asks is, ‘Does he love me?’”

Aksener, a 66-year-old former college lecturer, is maybe essentially the most profitable girl in Turkey’s current political historical past. If polling is considerably correct, the Iyi (or Good) Social gathering she based is rapidly changing into one of the crucial necessary gamers within the nation forward of the 2023 elections that can decide the nation’s future.