As the results poured in from Turkey’s run-off presidential vote on Sunday evening, excited supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gathered in the grey drizzle outside his party’s Istanbul office.
Among them was 38-year-old Enes Kırbacı, selling Turkish flags and banners emblazoned with a picture of the man who has led Turkey for two decades. “I come from a religious family and he [Erdoğan] prioritises religious issues. For example, the most important thing for us is building mosques,” Kırbacı says.