The reign of your buddies will not be eternal, in fact their short time in republics history will be remembered as the dark chapter of an otherwise amazing story.
Do you really think I'd care about Erdogan's persona?
Just for your information, this is Turkey so don't count your chickens before they hatch because the dynamics on the ground are changing once again.
From my recent ask arounds, I can deduce that people are slowly gravitating back towards AKP.
1. IYI party votes fell almost 50% after her recent hassle.
2. Muharrem Ince is taking his share from patriotic Kemalists.
3. AKP is uniting the conservative and religious votes (YRP, HÜDA-PAR etc.) behind her. Saadet Party voters are appaled by KK. It looks like only the actual members in the HQ of SP are supporting KK.
4. MHP is changing his tune and is now courting right-wing voters. Many former MHP voters are turning back to their roots.
Last but not least, you guys are constantly making one big mistake:
AKP and Erdogan are not synonymous. Erdogan's person is still very popular among the Anatolian masses and the educated conservative upper class. KK still has his image of an incompetent and unfit leader.
To give you some international examples:
There was one famous poll in Germany where 70% of the population was unhappy with the government's work while in the same poll 70% of the voters stated support for Merkel. People tend to differentiate between the government and the head of the state even though the former is responsible for the
governing.
tl;dr
Right before the elections, the Turkish populace has still not made up its mind which empirically is almost always a good sign for the party occupying the office.
