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Can the Elections in Turkey and Greece Ease Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean?
Entering May, two important countries along the Eastern Mediterranean Sea—Turkey and Greece—are holding presidential and parliamentary elections respectively. Turkey’s presidential election has attracted the attention of the outside world, not only because Erdogan, the strongman who has dominated the country’s political arena for 20 years, declared that this is his “last battle”, but also because of the severe public opinion challenges he once faced, reflecting some The mentality of voters seeking change after years of populism. In contrast, there is not much suspense in Greece’s parliamentary election: the moderate right-wing “New Democratic Party” led by the current Prime Minister Mitsotakis won more than 40% of the votes, much higher than…