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May 2023
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Erdoğan Victorious

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Erdoğan Victorious

Past Event
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May 31, 2023
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the “Strong Industry, Strong Turkey” Istanbul meeting on May 25, 2023, in Istanbul, Türkiye. (Cemal Yurttas via Getty Images)
31
May 2023
Past Event

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Speakers:
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Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

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Yusuf Erim

Editor-at-Large, TRT World

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Svante E. Cornell

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

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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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