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Turkey: Erdogan-Imamoglu duel exacerbates

2020-04-07T16:27:41.944Z


The health crisis is reigniting tensions between the president and the mayor of Istanbul.


Correspondent in Istanbul

It is a fierce battle through speeches and the media. As the coronavirus hits Turkey head on, the management of the health crisis has rekindled tensions between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ekrem Imamoglu, his main rival and mayor of Istanbul, the country's economic lung. Deploring a lack of coordination, the latter continues to denounce Ankara's laxity. "Based on what is done elsewhere in the world, I am convinced that a total confinement of two or three weeks in Istanbul will reduce the number of cases and (…) deaths," he said last week. AFP, criticizing the government's low reactivity.

Since this weekend, the Turkish authorities have tightened their measures by prohibiting those under 20 from leaving their homes, as they had already done for those over 65. In Istanbul, epicenter of the pandemic, but also in the rest of the country, mosques, schools, universities

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Source: lefigaro

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