For Erdogan, the Bill for Turkey’s Debt-Fueled Growth Comes Due
Turkey’s strongman president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, voting Sunday in Istanbul’s mayoral election. His candidate was defeated.
By Peter S. Goodman
June 24, 2019
The shocking rebuke of Turkey’s governing party in Sunday’s mayoral election in Istanbul resonated as more than a yearning for new leadership in the nation’s largest city. It signaled mounting despair over the economic disaster that has befallen the nation under the strongman rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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