Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Turkish Mayoral Candidate Seeks to Break Political Mold

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Turkey is in the midst of one of it most important and bitterly contested election campaigns in decades. Nowhere is the campaign more intense than in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city and home to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Istanbul has been the bastion of the ruling AK Party for two decades, but that rule is now under threat from a candidate for city mayor who is as controversial and mold-breaking as the prime minister himself. Addressing a crowd of thousands in one of...

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