Municipal elections in Türkiye: Erdogan to reconquer Istanbul. “ Erdogan made it a question of personal revenge,” observes political scientist Berk Esen.
The country's strong man threw all his weight into the campaign to try to dethrone his rival, Ekrem Imamoglu. He increased the minimum wage two months before the election, making a series of trips across the country, personally choosing the candidate for mayor of Istanbul, Murat Kurum, a former Minister of the Environment.