Erdogan addresses in historic Istanbul rally

“We reopened this shop a week after the earthquakes, and we haven’t seen them since,” Mehmet said. “This city is the AKP’s castle but I haven’t seen any of them around here, not even next to the rubble.” Turkey goes to the polls on 14 May, three months after multiple quakes killed more than 46,000 people and displaced at least 1 million people from the country’s south-east. A tight race between Erdoğan and the main opposition candidate, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, is expected.