An electoral bruising for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey
The opposition triumphs in mayoral elections in Istanbul, Ankara and across the country | World News
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The opposition triumphs in mayoral elections in Istanbul, Ankara and across the country | World News
The opposition triumphs in mayoral elections in Istanbul, Ankara and across the country | Europe
Observers called it Erdogan's worst election defeat since his party took power in 2002, with many blaming sky-high inflation of 67% and a crashing devaluation of the lira currency the past year
Turkey's local elections, on Sunday d, dealt the biggest blow, in more than two decades, to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The huge gains made by the opposition in Türkiye’s local elections are raising the possibility that the long-serving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party could step back from some of the populist leader’s more polarizing policies ahead of the next round of voting in four years’ time. There is no doubt that Sunday's local polls were a blow to both Erdogan and his Islamic-oriented Justice and Development Party, or AKP, which won last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections.