Turkey’s election board has stripped Ekrem Imamoglu of his mandate in Istanbul. A new election will take place on June 23rd
May 6th, many of them having just broken their daily Ramadan fast over dinner, men and women in several neighbourhoods of Turkey’s biggest city cracked open their windows, turned on their lights and started banging together their pots and pans in a time-honoured display of protest.
Analysts see Mr Erdogan’s fingerprints all over the move, and warn that Turkey and free elections might no longer belong in the same sentence. “For nearly 70 years there was a consensus in Turkey that political power changed through the ballot box, and that consensus came to an end today,” says Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute.
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