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 ...
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 ...