“WE NEED change, we’ve had enough,” said Mehmet Topaloglu, one of the first to cast his ballot today in the southern Turkish city of Antakya, destroyed by this year’s devastating earthquake.
For Topaloglu, the 7.8-magnitude February tremor that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and the economic situation have changed the nature of the polls, which could end President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s more than two-decade grip on power.