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Turkey’s autocrat Erdogan is trying to eliminate his rival Imamoglu
In 2019 already, Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ermerged as the most dangerous rival for Turkey’s president turned autocrat, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was single-headedly ruining the Turkish economy and impoverished large sections of the population. Imamoglu is not the typical dull, secular, liberal, center-left CHP politician, but a charismatic one who is also electable for conservative and religious Turks as well as the Kurdish minority. As in the case of Kurdish mayors, removed from office over terrorism-related charges, replaced with state-appointed...
