But what are the strengths and weaknesses of President Erdogan, with the approach of new elections in 2023, while the AKP celebrates its 20 years of power next November? In Erdogan’s Turkey (editions du Rocher), Anne Andlauer describes a power in defensive mode and an opposition that says that hope is not forbidden. Anne Andlauer, RFI correspondent in Istanbul, has lived in Turkey since 2010.
At the beginning of February, the Turkish president must pay a visit to Saudi Arabia, the first since the assassination in 2018 of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Recep Tayyip Erdogan also offers to intercede between Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian president in the midst of an international crisis. So many signs of an active foreign policy, which sometimes earned him the qualifier in the Western press as the new Sultan of Istanbul.