Bayram Balci: Erdogan camp should take the opportunity to accentuate its policy. Istanbul and its region concentrate most of the country's wealth, he says.

Balci says Erdogan is as charismatic and energetic a rhetorician as he eclipses his second knives. A victory in these municipal elections would make it possible to cement for a long time the hold of Tayyip Erdogan or his disciples on the territories by 2028, says Balci, who is a researcher at CERI/Sciences Po Paris.