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Ankara Mayor Becomes Unlikely Rebel in Showdown With Erdogan - Bloomberg

Ankara Mayor Becomes Unlikely Rebel in Showdown With Erdogan
By Benjamin Harvey
and Onur Ant
October 22, 2017, 11:00 PM GMT+2 October 23, 2017

Longtime Ankara Mayor Melih Gokcek is resisting pressure to resign, fashioning himself into an unlikely rebel as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turns a sweeping purge of Turkish society against his own party.

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