As Erdogan moves towards his second decade as prime minister, Turkey could not look more different.
It has one of the world's fastest-growing economies, it is a European Union candidate and a regional heavyweight, and religious Turks have displaced the secularist elite from power.
An autocrat and a dangerous Islamist to his enemies, a hero and a man of the people to his admirers, Erdogan has transformed this Muslim democracy since his AK Party swept to power in 2002, on a scale unseen since Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish republic in 1923 out of the ruins of a defeated Ottoman Empire.
Opinion polls show Erdogan, 57, will comfortably win a third term of single-party rule in an election on June 12.
While the only uncertainty at the ballot box is Erdogan's margin of victory, the outcome will determine the future of this complicated country of 74 million people.
As Erdogan moves towards his second decade as prime minister, Turkey could not look more different.
It has one of the world's fastest-growing economies, it is a European Union candidate and a regional heavyweight, and religious Turks have displaced the secularist elite from power.
An autocrat and a dangerous Islamist to his enemies, a hero and a man of the people to his admirers, Erdogan has transformed this Muslim democracy since his AK Party swept to power in 2002, on a scale unseen since Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish republic in 1923 out of the ruins of a defeated Ottoman Empire.
Opinion polls show Erdogan, 57, will comfortably win a third term of single-party rule in an election on June 12.
While the only uncertainty at the ballot box is Erdogan's margin of victory, the outcome will determine the future of this complicated country of 74 million people.
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