Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is losing voters in the country’s major cities. Compared to the 2018 elections, the AKP’s vote share has fallen by more than 10 percentage points in Istanbul, the capital Ankara, Bursa, the industrial heartland of Kocaeli and the Pontic cities of Trabzon and Rizunda, […]
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Heavy shadow of uncertainty in Turkey ahead of elections
By Kostas Raptis Down but not out: Down but not out kid. He is at the present time, according to an analysis published in the American The National Interest by Sinan Djidi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Tayyip Erdogan, ten months (at most) before the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. Uncertainty surrounds […]