The Turkish president presented himself as the guardian of the walls of Islam and Turkish nationalism. Most voters in Turkey, especially in the rural and peripheral areas and in the slums of the big cities, identify with the message.
Pollsters now predict that Erdogan will win the second round of elections in about a week. Turkey under Erdogan seems to have become a country in which democracy is limited and partial, and in fact manifests itself only once every four years, in elections in which the opposition has no chance of winning.