Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffers an electoral disaster

[Hol]

Mar 31st 2024 (updated 6h ago)|ISTANBUL

Editor’s note: This article was updated on April 1st 2024
TURKEY WOKE up transformed on April 1st, a day after the country’s main opposition party scored a spectacular upset in local elections by winning big victories in the country’s largest cities, surging past the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party nationwide and handing Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s president, a stinging rebuke.

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I don't know anything about Turkish politics but it seems like erdogan will keep his position, at least that's the way it seems to me.

 

[Hol]

I don't know anything about Turkish politics but it seems like erdogan will keep his position, at least that's the way it seems to me.

You're right, it seems similar to Greet Wilders getting such a surprising popular vote, it may come to nothing.