Tag: Ekrem Imamoglu
Even though no tender date has been set for the construction of Turkey’s controversial Canal Istanbul, a project touted as “crazy” by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2011, the land buying spree in Istanbul’s ...
COVID-19 could strengthen global resilience against populist authoritarianism. Those movements should also learn from each other. In Turkey under populist authoritarian rule, despite all the pressure, exclusion and fragmentation tactics of the government, there is ...
İstanbul’s new mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu in a city tram. İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has said the city’s plans to revive three rail system projects are currently blocked by the Undersecretariat of the Treasury, the BirGün ...
His election victory was a stinging indictment of President Erdogan’s economic policies. Erdogan’s party had already lost Turkey’s capital, Ankara, and other big cities in March balloting as inflation, unemployment, and a plunging lira took ...
Istanbul has been forced to turn to foreign banks to find money for frozen infrastructure projects because Turkey’s state lenders have refused financing for the municipality since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party lost control of ...
The new law — currently being prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning — will shift jurisdiction over development along the Bosporus. (Shutterstock) Supporters of the new draft law say it will resolve ...
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the newly elected mayor of İstanbul, has received executives from Amedspor, a football club based in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast, the Bold Medya news website reported. “I had promised to stand with them,” ...
After an opposition victory in Istanbul, rumours swirl of a ruling-party split What did he think he was playing at? When Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, strong-armed his country’s electoral watchdog into annulling the result ...
Ekrem Imamoglu, mayoral candidate of Turkey’s main opposition party, greets supporters at a rally in Istanbul.Kemal Aslan/Reuters After his party suffered a humiliating loss in Istanbul, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is down but far ...
Aug 25, 2020 Istanbul’s mayoral race was held twice in 2019, and opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu won both times. Fast forward from June 27, 2019 — the day Imamoglu, from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), accepted the position ...