Background: On June 18, 2023, the Turkish general election will be held which will include the first round of the Turkish presidential election. According to opinion polls, Erdogan could lose in the second round against certain potential candidates.
Update: The first round has been moved forward to Sunday, May 14.
This market will resolve as YES if Erdogan is declared the winner of 2023's first presidential election by the Supreme Election Council, and NO otherwise.
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3.00Resolves yes. The election council confirmed the results.
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The election outcome will be determined to a likely significant extent by Sinan Oğan's direction to his voter base.
There are a couple of reasons he may choose to publicly support Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu:
- Both Kemal and Sinan are currently members of parties that are ideologically Kemalist.
- Sinan has said he will support the candidate that is more "anti-Syrian", while Erdoğan seems actually relatively more "pro-Syrian" than is Kılıçdaroğlu.
-- https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230504-turkey-s-syrians-root-for-erdogan-in-may-vote
-- https://npasyria.com/en/97735/
However, Sinan is also "anti-Kurdish", which could mean a higher chance of supporting Erdoğan instead:
- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-runoff-potential-kingmaker-draws-red-line-kurdish-consessions-2023-05-15/
- https://www.arabnews.com/node/2299416/middle-east
It is very sad that this second round be framed so divisively, by such a far right figure, and by such xenophobic stances in general.
Note: I have not researched into RTE/KK swing voters yet, so there is still further uncertainty even beyond what is suggested by the above information.
@cloudprism boy, Erdogan won with 49.5%. It would need that more than 80% of the people that voted to another candidate to vote to Kilicdaroglu