A Wake-Up Call for President Erdogan
In local Turkish elections, the opposition, united and organized, took on an autocrat.
Just when it seemed that democracy was all but dead in Turkey, voters delivered a sharp electoral rebuke to their authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Unofficial results in municipal elections over the weekend show that Mr. Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party lost control of Ankara, the capital, and Istanbul, the financial center and launching pad for Mr. Erdogan’s political career.
More:Opinion | A Wake-Up Call for President Erdogan - The New York Times