Correspondent in Istanbul
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had launched the bet of a new "Turkish century". That is recorded. Re-elected with 52% of the vote, and strengthened by the parliamentary victory of his party, the AKP, and its far-right ally, the MHP, the Turkish president has all the necessary latitude to consolidate his Islamo-nationalist power, and sweep away a little more the heritage of the secular Republic of Atatürk, as he approaches his hundred years. At the end of a campaign as polarising as it is unbalanced, the opposition's dreams of a return to the rule of law have now been dashed.
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The election of Kemal Kiliçdaroglu held the promise of democratic openness. In his programme, there was talk of reinstating dismissed civil servants. It was a great hope for the thousands of teachers purged after the failed coup in 2016," said Zeynep Gambetti, a retired professor at Bosphorus University. Instead of playing the card of appeasement, once renewed...
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