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    A Turkish Opposition Leader Is Fighting Erdoğan With ‘Radical Love’

    “All around the world, populism is used to divide and rule. But I believe we can turn this trend upside down.”
    by Melvyn Ingleby Jun 14, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Murad Sezer / Reuters

    ISTANBUL—Consider the following scenario: You are an opposition leader in a deeply divided nation. Against all odds, you narrowly win a local election against a ruling party that controls the public space and censors the media, becoming mayor of the country’s largest city. Under government pressure, however, the authorities rule that the vote was rigged, deposing you from office and triggering a new election.

    What do you do?

    This was precisely the dilemma facing the now-ousted mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, last month. Yet as many feared street protests or violence, he called for something perhaps more threatening to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)—love.

    “They want conflict from us,” İmamoğlu his furious supporters on the night he was deposed from office. “But we, the people who do not want this nation to fight, we will insist upon

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