Intel: How Turkey just shattered many voters' already fractured trust in their democracy - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

May 6, 2019

A Turkish flag, with the New and the Suleymaniye mosques in the background, flies on a passenger ferry in Istanbul, Turkey, April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RC1B6C6E4270 — A Turkish flag flies on a passenger ferry in Istanbul, Turkey, April 11, 2019. — REUTERS/Murad Sezer

People queue to vote at a polling station during the municipal elections in Istanbul, Turkey, March 31, 2019. REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir - RC19D7442440

Intel: How Turkey's local elections mark rebuke for Erdogan's one-man rule

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Supporters of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) wave Turkish flags during a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, April 21, 2019. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RC1A63C855B0

Voters mysteriously added, subtracted for Istanbul election rerun

Jasper Mortimer

Jasper Mortimer

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - JUNE 01: People walk past election posters of AK Parti candidate Binali Yildirim (L) and CHP Party, candidate Ekrem Imamoglu (R) during campaigning in the re-run of the Istanbul mayoral election on June 01, 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey. Imamoglu won a narrow victory during the first mayoral election held in March, defeating the candidate from President Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP). But Turkey‚Äôs election body annulled the result after claims of ‚Äúirregularities,‚Äù and Imam

Istanbul mayoral candidates to debate in rare TV face-off

Diego Cupolo

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends a news briefing following the talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia April 8, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC14E4FB8380

Turkey in for 'hard time' following Erdogan election losses

Jasper Mortimer

Jasper Mortimer