Correspondent in Istanbul
Gülsin drops on a bench, his cheeks blackened with rimmel. "Sorry, I cried all night," says the 35-year-old graphic designer. On the corniche of Bebek, the "Monaco" of Istanbul, on the edge of the Bosphorus, the mesmerizing ballet of boats and joggers in the morning struggles to hide the general depression. "Here, we voted Kemal Kiliçdaroglu with our eyes closed and dared to believe it. Even in the second round! Now there is no hope. More horizon. As if our country were under the yoke of one man, Erdogan, for eternity!" laments the young woman in a miniskirt. From the victory speech of the "Reis", from the roof of a bus in the Üsküdar district, Sunday, May 28, she remembered this expression: "We will be together to the cemetery." "Truth be told, he has already turned our lives into tombs. Especially for women. For twenty years, it has been nibbling away at our rights and freedoms. In 2021, he withdrew Turkey from the Istanbul Convention, which was supposed to protect us from violence...
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