Will Erdoğan survive Turkey election? Youth vote may hold key.

It is not often in Turkey that you see a balding, middle-aged man dancing energetically on a bus to rap, pumping his fists.

But that is the way that Muharrem İnce, a prominent opposition candidate in Sunday’s presidential election until he dropped out of the race on Thursday, chose to woo the youth vote, sharing the video of his exertions on social media.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the only man with a chance of beating sitting president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is a septuagenarian and has found a less physically demanding way of appealing to first-time voters: He is often to be seen in videos and at rallies making a heart with his hands.

The president himself has not opted for such tactics. But he has made promises