professor of international relations and dean of the faculty of science and arts at istanbul aydin university. thank you so much for joining us. how much has nationalism turned out to be a defining factor in this election cycle? >> i think it is the key issue of this process because in the first round the president used this ideology quite successfully. at the end of the day we see the results. [indiscernible] nationalism has become very much adopted. erdogan has proved he is a master politician. the core issue in this runoff concerns the immigration issue. mohammed: i will get back to you about what you wear a dress and in regards to kemal kilicdaroglu and the fact that he has aligned himself with the nationalist figures. the nationalist hard-line candidate sinan ogan received 5.2% of the votes in the first round and he has now endorsed president erdogan. do you believe his endorsers well follow his lead? >> i think it is an open-ended question. none of us can be sure. he was saying there was something wrong with erdogan's policies. he was supported by other parties. it has made everything m

tarik oguzlu, professor of international relations at istanbul aydin university.elin sari ertem, associate professor at istanbul medeniyet university. she specializes in turkish foreign policy. and yusuf alabarda is a columnist for turkiye gazetesi, a retired turkish kernel. a warm welcome to all of you. helin, what surprises came out of this election for you? helin: well, for the first time actually, we can call this a kind of victory, although many of us are talking about the runoff, a kind of balance with the two leaders and we are going to a second round. but at the same time when i consider the huge amount of people among the opposition alliance, we can still talk about a victory on erdogan's side. regarding the second run, well, it's difficult. it will be a difficult and a very tense two weeks ahead of us, and we all have to be very careful in order not to increase the tension among turkish society. we're talking not only about the economy, as bill clinton called in the early 1990's, the economy is stupid but i believe this time it is not on the economy at s