Tag: Resounding
Does the AKP’s Resounding Defeat Spell the End of Erdoğan?
Social democrats prevailed in local elections in Istanbul, and as Erdoğan himself says, “Whoever wins Istanbul wins Turkey.”
A crowd in Istanbul celebrates the election victory of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on March 31, 2024.
(Mert Can Bukulmez / Middle East Images / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
When Gustave Flaubert visited Istanbul in 1850, the year he began writing Madame Bovary, he predicted that it would soon become “the capital of the world.” But