In Local Election, a Referendum on Turkey’s Leader
ISTANBUL — As the campaign bus moved through Istanbul’s traffic, the
cityscape blurred: construction cranes, new shopping malls and
boutiques, a billboard for the luxury department store Harvey Nichols —
all signposts of a city more populous than some European countries,
vastly reshaped under the Islamist government of Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan.
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