Correspondent in Istanbul
On her Instagram page, with more than 360,000 subscribers, she is proudly renamed “
mayor of Üsküdar
”. At 43, Sinem Dedetas would never have imagined dethroning Hilmi Türkmen, her opponent from the AKP, the ruling party, at the head of this historic district of Istanbul, known to be Erdogan's preserve. Less than a year ago, on the evening of his re-election as head of the country, it is from this same district on the Asian side, where he lives - and votes - when he is not at the Ankara palace , that the Turkish “reis
”
declared with beating drums that it wanted to reconquer the megacity of 16 million inhabitants.
“I do not perceive my victory as revenge on the president, but the just reward for our efforts
,” tempers the new councilor, welcoming us to the local office of the CHP, the Republican People's Party. On the evening of Sunday March 31, as Turkey gradually shifted into opposition - a first in twenty years of AKP power - it cautiously waited...
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