Türkiye’s election may end Erdogan’s 20-year rule, and Ukraine is watching

In the presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye this Sunday, its long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems close to defeat – for the first time in twenty years.

If the opposition, led by the National Alliance candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, wins, it is very likely that Turkey will return to a more classical foreign policy, former Turkish Ambassador to NATO Fatih Ceylan tells LIGA.net.

"Such a new course would put Türkiye’s relations with the West on a healthier footing, but with the support of good neighbourliness in the region," he says.