In its editorial, the paper says that the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) loss in Sunday's mayoral elections is a result of voter unhappiness with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's handling of Turkey's recession.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Not so, however, Sunday's tryst with democracy in the quangos of Turkey. The outcome is was bathed in pregnant symbolism as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's grip has been challenged fair and square.
It would be no exaggeration to aver that a national election does not always yield so dramatic a psephological swing. It has been an unofficial referendum, so-called, on the stuttering economy, which has been in dire straits for a while.The verdict is virtually a message of no-confidence as the nation of 81 million people contends with a recession for the first time since Erdogan entered office in 2003.
As it turns out, for the first time in 25 years, Ankara has now gone out of the control of Islamist parties with the secularist victory. Erdogan's Istanbul, his hometown and where he began his political career as mayor in 1994, bears witness to a not dissimilar narrative.
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