Mr Erdogan also tried to soothe the many urban and middle-class Turks who fear his party is bent on unravelling decades of secularism established under the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk.

• 埃尔多安也试图安抚城市中产阶级居民，它们害怕其政党将破坏由土耳其国父凯末尔建立、迄今维持数十年的世俗主义体制。