How will Turkey's authoritarian president react to opposition's big win in Istanbul?
by Umar Farooq and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Jun 24, 2019
3 minutes
ISTANBUL - First, democracy watchers in Turkey cheered. Now, they're holding their collective breath.
In the country's largest city, Istanbul, all-night, car-honking revelry took place after an opposition candidate won Sunday's closely watched mayoral election in a landslide.
The result, ratified Monday, marked the most humiliating setback in years for Turkey's authoritarian-minded president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had put his own prestige on the line in stumping for the ruling party's candidate.
For the opposition, victory was sweetened by the fact that the vote was a do-over. Its original win
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