White down jacket and ear piercing, Kubilay, 22, finishes a game of chess at Central, one of the many cafes on the vast American-style campus of Metu (Middle East Technical University), the prestigious university in Ankara. “
Priority to friends and exams
,” insists the engineering student, even if he will still vote this Sunday, March 31, “
but out of disappointment, more than out of conviction.” “My generation
,” he continues,
“has only known
the AKP regime.
(Islamo-conservative party founded by Erdogan, in power since 2003).
She had a hard time with the opposition's failure in the presidential election last May, even though she believed in change. This time, I am going to vote for the candidate of the new Zafer party
(far right),
just to try something else, and because I recognize myself in his nationalist and secular values
.”
On D-1 of the municipal election, where there is little enthusiasm, the disillusionment of many young voters contributes to what the last elections had...
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