Erdoğan Victorious

May 2023

Past Event

Erdoğan Victorious

Past Event

Online Only

May 31, 2023

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the “Strong Industry, Strong Turkey” Istanbul meeting on May 25, 2023, in Istanbul, Türkiye. (Cemal Yurttas via Getty Images)

May 2023

Past Event

Speakers:

Yusuf Erim

Editor-at-Large, TRT World

Svante E. Cornell

Director, American Foreign Policy Council's Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, and Co-founder, Institute for Security and Development Policy

Colonel (retired) Rich Outzen, PhD

Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation

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A cover story in The Economist billed it as the "Most Important Election of 2023.” On May 28, Turkish voters headed back to the polls to decide a contest that pitted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. The election was a referendum on, among other things, Erdoğan’s economic policies, response to the earthquake, and balancing of Moscow and Washington. And Erdoğan won, hands down. Please join Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Doran as he moderates a discussion with a panel of experts on Turkish politics to unpack what this decisive victory means for US-Turkey relations, the war in Ukraine, and the balance of power in the Middle East.

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Tim Mak

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Joel Scanlon

Amb. Jakub Kulhánek

Amb. Nicholas Merrick

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Max Prasolov

Tim Mak

Olga Chábr Grillová

Juan Moreno

James Mazol

Tomáš Pojar

Will Edwards

Jason Gaines

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Peter Rough

Nadia Schadlow

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