Letter from Istanbul: Turkey has difficult years ahead

Letter from Istanbul: Turkey has difficult years ahead Aslı Aydıntaşbaş Tuesday, April 4, 2023 The first was seeing how deeply scarred folks were from the February 6th earthquake — having been hit not only with grief but also the realization that at the end of his 20-year reign, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s hyper-centralized and dysfunctional governance system was partly to blame for the high number of casualties. Erdoğan’s re-election is no longer a foregone conclusion, which makes this election consequential not just for Turkish citizens but for the global balance of power. More:Letter from Istanbul: Turkey has difficult years ahead