How will Erdogan respond to Turkish voters' rebuke of hie strongman style?
The Washington Post Published 11:47 pm EDT, Monday, April 1, 2019
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turned Sunday's local elections into a referendum on his increasingly authoritarian leadership. He feverishly barnstormed the country, attempting to rally his base with claims that Turkey's existence as a nation was at stake. He even played videos of the recent massacre of Muslim worshipers in New Zealand. Fortunately, the result was a decisive rebuff. According to results reported Monday, Erdogan's party lost the mayorships of Turkey's two most important cities, Ankara and Istanbul, for the first time in a quarter-century, along with city halls in almost every other large city.
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