Turkey election.

Turkey's presidential election has shed light on the enduring influence of the conservative mindset within the country's political landscape. Deeply rooted in cultural and religious values, this mindset has shaped the preferences and voting patterns of a significant portion of Turkey's electorate.

While experts and critics tend to believe that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slowly chipped away at the pillars of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secular republic, the Turkish president has increasingly been successful at playing to the gallery and promoting the much yearned trend of preserving traditional values in tandem with development and modernisation. This sentiment is so profound among the Turkish people that it has overshadowed Erdogan's illiberal and authoritarian direction. During his tenure, President Erdogan implemented increasingly stringent measures to limit freedom of speech and expression, while his administration utilised the judicial system to detain or pursue legal action against political adversaries. His most prominent rival has been Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a former bureaucrat struggling in the shadows for more than a decade. Kilicdaroglu has...