The 2024 local elections in Turkey were a disaster for President Erdogan and his corrupt, anti-democratic, conservative and Islamist AKP. The big winner is the oppositional, social-democratic, Kemalist CHP with candidates such as Ekrem Imamoglu (*1970) in Istanbul and Mansur Yavaş (*1955) in Ankara, to mention just the economically leading city as well as the capital. Roughly 61...