Turkey's local elections and Erdogan's race for Istanbul and Ankara
Rachel Hamdoun
4 min readThe key switch in this year's local elections is Istanbul alongside Ankara - one for the money and two for the power. This local election goes much deeper than it seems and serves a fateful purpose for Erdogan, because at the moment he doesn't have enough parliamentary seats to enact a new constitution that would allow him to run for a third term after 2028.
An image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu (Illustrated by: Zeinab el Hajj, Al Mayadeen English)
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