AKP losses are unprecedented rebuke to Erdoğan’s authority and a backlash is feared
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan turned Turkey’s local elections into a referendum on his personal leadership. The results, showing his Justice and Development party in retreat nationally and losing control of seven of Turkey’s 12 main cities, not counting Istanbul, will thus be viewed as a stinging personal repudiation.
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