Campaigning for Turkey’s parliamentary elections has entered its final week.<br /><br /> For President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an event on Saturday celebrating the Ottomans’ conquest of Istanbul was a chance to rally support for the ruling AK Party, which he founded.<br /><br /> While constitutionally banned from party politics as head of state, Erdogan has nonetheless delivered podium speeches around the country in recent weeks ahead of the June 7 election.<br /><br /> He wants the Islamist-rooted AKP to win a big enough majority to change the constitution and hand him greater powers, within a presidential system.<br /><br /> Although opinion polls suggest the party may struggle to do so, one AKP supporter, who spoke to euronews at the rally, needs no convincing.<br /><br /> “The AK Party has been in government for 12 years and it’s powerful. In 90 years of this republic, no other party has reached out in such a way to Kurds, Alawites and others,” he said.<br /><br /> Campaigning nearby, however, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party or HDP,
