Turkish municipal elections: Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffers a historic defeat. The president's Islamist party had never recorded such a setback in two decades of reign.

Less than a year after its defeat in the 2023 presidential election, the opposition CHP party won the country's largest cities. “With this election, Istanbul residents have sent a message to the government: the tutelage of one man is over! », Launched Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday evening, in front of a joyful crowd.