The people of Turkey have voted for him right? He improved their economic situation enormously, this is democracy, you get who you vote for.
I’ll link to the Wiki, as that seems right. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Turkish_presidential_el...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Turkish_local_elections
You are entitled to have your own opinion, not to the facts.
Edit: My link was to the 2018 presidential election, yours is to the more recent 2019 elections.
Edit 2: I’m not sure what you find reassuring about the 2019 elections - is that the link you intended to post? The bit titled “Controversies and issues” is completely terrible.
How? By what methods are you measuring that?
Edit: In case it is not clear, this is a (poor taste) joke. The track record for beating those who dissent even when outside of Turkey is well established.
Is it your opinion that the government was right to do this?
This is a regular pattern with right-wing populist governments. When they get into power they institute a set of economic policies that lead to wide-spread prosperity in the short term, but in the long-term are a disaster.
As far as elections go, the government pretends to be in favor of free and fair elections, but its political philosophy is a set of arguments as to why they are a terrible idea and ought to be eliminated. Which is just what the Ergogan goverment has been attempting to do in a step-by-step fashion.
Left-wing populist governments have been known to do that, too.
And left-wing populist governments have also been known to place a thumb on the scales of elections, in order to make sure that they come out "correctly".