{"id":775005,"date":"2023-01-14T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=775005"},"modified":"2023-07-26T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:13:48","slug":"the-worlds-mostimportant-election-in-2023will-be-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/01\/14\/the-worlds-mostimportant-election-in-2023will-be-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most<br>Important Election in 2023<br>Will Be in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the many general elections of international consequence to watch this year, Nigeria\u2019s, scheduled for February will be by far the largest; Pakistan\u2019s, due by October, will probably be the loudest. But the most important will unquestionably take place on June 18, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks to stretch his rule over Turkey into a third decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome will shape geopolitical and economic calculations in Washington and Moscow, as well as capitals across Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. \u201cWhat happens in Turkey doesn\u2019t just stay in Turkey,\u201d says Ziya Meral, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for<br>Defence and Security Studies. \u201cTurkey may be a middle power, but the great powers have a stake in its election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-Worlds-Most-Important-Election-in-2023-Will-Be-in-Turkey-The-Washington-P.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of The-Worlds-Most-Important-Election-in-2023-Will-Be-in-Turkey-The-Washington-P.\"><\/object>The-Worlds-Most-Important-Election-in-2023-Will-Be-in-Turkey-The-Washington-PDownload<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>betula nelson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many general elections of international consequence to watch this year, Nigeria\u2019s, scheduled for February will be by far the largest; Pakistan\u2019s, due by October, will probably be the loudest. But the most important will unquestionably take place on June 18, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks to stretch his rule over Turkey into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":108281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[922],"tags":[1810],"class_list":["post-775005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}