Turks began voting on Sunday in local elections that President Tayyip Erdogan ha...
ANKARA - Turks began voting on Sunday in local elections that President Tayyip Erdogan has described as a matter of survival for the country.
However, he could be dealt an electoral blow with polls indicating his ruling AK Party may lose control of the capital Ankara, and even Istanbul, the country’s largest city. With the economy contracting following a currency crisis last year in which the lira lost more than 30 percent of its value, some voters appeared ready to punish Erdogan who has ruled with an increasingly uncompromising stance.
Sunday’s elections, in which Turks will vote for mayors and other local officials across the country, will be the first since Erdogan assumed sweeping presidential powers last year and will be a reckoning for his government, which has come under fire for its economic policies and record on human rights.Defeat in either Ankara or Istanbul would bring to an end a nearly quarter century rule by Erdogan’s AKP or its predecessors in those cities and deal a symbolic blow to Turkey’s leader.
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