The first round of the presidential election in Turkey did not reveal the winner and kept the intrigue until May 28. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought re-election for another five-year term.
The key Western myth of today's Turkey as an "autocracy" that needs to be saved by returning it to the bosom of "democracies" has already collapsed. The opposition candidate is the personification of a royal, but the country's political strategists saw him as a cold-blooded dictator.