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Turkish PM Erdogan faces key test in local election

By Agence France-Presse in Istanbul (China Daily) Updated: 2014-03-28 06:57

Turkish PM Erdogan faces key test in local election

Supporters hold up a portrait of Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan while waving Turkish and Justice and Development Party flags during an election rally in Istanbul on Sunday. Murad Sezer / Reuters

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dogged by months of street protests and corruption claims, faces a key test on Sunday when his Islamic-rooted party is challenged in local elections.

The municipal elections in Istanbul, Ankara and elsewhere are the first polls since a police crackdown on demonstrators claimed eight lives in June and sparked months of political turmoil.

Erdogan, after more than a decade in power, has alienated many with his response, labeling his critics "terrorists", purging thousands of police and justice officials, and banning Twitter.

In weeks of frantic shirt-sleeves campaigning, which has left his voice hoarse, he has declared the mayoral and local assembly elections a referendum on his Justice and Development Party (AKP).

"We will teach them a big lesson on March 30, ... and claim victory," Erdogan, 60, bellowed across a mass rally in Istanbul last week, one of scores of campaign events he has attended.

Erdogan, a former mayor of the megacity, declared that "whoever wins Istanbul wins Turkey".

Tight races

He has also vowed to quit politics unless his party emerges the winner.

Lowering the bar somewhat, the Justice and Development Party has said any result over the 38.8 percent it won in 2009 local polls would be a success - far below the 49 percent it scored in 2011 general elections.

Dozens of opinion polls have predicted the party's results ranging from less than 35 to more than 45 percent.

Analysts stress that despite growing criticism of Erdogan as authoritarian, he still commands the loyalty of millions, as well as a rich campaign war chest and an incumbent's grip on much of the national media.

"Erdogan is still a very skilled politician and he exercises enormous control over Turkish institutions, giving him the ability to manage politics," said Brent Sasley, a Middle East expert at the University of Texas.

"I don't think we can quantify the loss he will receive at this point, but it's not likely to be enough to undermine his appeal within the party or among the electorate," he said.

The race is predicted to be tight in Istanbul and especially in the capital, Ankara, both long Justice and Development Party strongholds where the main opposition Republican People's Party now has stronger candidates than in recent polls.

The Justice and Development Party will struggle to oust the opposition from key cities, including Izmir in the west, a bastion of the secular Republican People's Party, and Diyarbakir, the largest city in the Kurdish-majority southeast.

'Coup plot'

Though Erdogan is not on the ballot and many of the 53 million eligible voters will decide based on local issues, the poll is nonetheless the first test of the powerful prime minister's popularity since the turmoil kicked off by the June protests.

Erdogan faced another political nightmare when a major corruption scandal broke in December that saw dozens of leading businessmen and political figures, including the sons of three ministers, detained in police raids.

The crisis claimed the scalps of four ministers and prompted eight Justice and Development Party lawmakers to resign.

Erdogan himself has been accused, based on leaked audio tapes purporting to be of tapped phone conversations, of conspiring with his son to hide millions of dollars in cash once the probe started.

Erdogan has labeled the graft probe a "coup plot" by rivals, including former ally Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Muslim preacher who wields considerable influence among the police and judiciary.

Erdogan has embarked on a mass purge of police and prosecutors and pushed through draconian laws curbing the judiciary and access to online media.

Last week he banned Twitter, which was used to spread the audio recordings, raising international doubts about the health of Turkish democracy. The ban was overturned on Wednesday by an Ankara court.

 

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