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Erdogan, in Turkey’s Municipal Elections, Is Stunned With a Course-Altering Setback That Could Spell a More Liberal Country

Ankara and Istanbul are now in the camp of the Republican People’s Party, which was founded by Atatürk and is the main redoubt of the opposition.

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Kemal Ataturk. Via Wikimedia Commons
ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

So much for President Erdogan’s blurred vision of fashioning an Ottoman Empire 2.0. With the king-sized drubbing he took in local elections on Sunday, Turkey’s autocratic leader may already be facing the future as a footnote. 

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ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

Mr. Grant, a California native who has written for many major newspapers including France-Soir and the New York Times and worked in television at Paris (France24) and Tel Aviv (i24news), is now based in Athens as a staff reporter and editor of The New York Sun.

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