It is a historic victory. Less than a year after its defeat in the 2023 presidential election, the opposition CHP party won the country's largest cities: Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, as well as Bursa, Antalya and Adana.
“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 gathered in front of Istanbul town hall. At 52, the outgoing mayor of Istanbul, candidate for re-election, has reason to savor his triumph.
Even if the polls showed him winning with a slight lead over his opponent and former Minister of Urbanization, Murat Kurum, he knew his road was being undermined by his real political rival, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Determined to reconquer his stronghold of Istanbul, where he launched into politics at the end of the 1990s, the latter had thrown all his stature as head of state into the campaign, with meetings across the country as in...
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