HE who wins Istanbul wins Turkey. Such was the maxim popularised by none other than Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the days when the AKP (Justice and Development Party) was rising. Those were the good days and now those good days may be going away, as Turkey’s inhabitants revisit their relations with the Islamist party.
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