Turkish lira plunges as Erdoğan claims mandate to continue divisive rule

Ziya Meral of the Royal United Services Institute agreed. “The alliance that brought him to power this time was underwritten by a nationalist voter base, but also designed to create a sense of urgency among his supporters that whether it was Kurdish militants, western-oriented liberals or foreign powers, they all wanted to topple Erdoğan with this election,” he said.