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    Istanbul’s rebuke of Erdogan shows that democracy lives

    by Ian Bremmer Jul 08, 2019 2 minutes

    IN MARCH, TURKISH opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu defeated Binali Yildirim, the candidate of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, by about 13,000 votes to claim victory in the race to become Istanbul’s mayor. The exceptionally narrow margin in a city of 15 million people gave Erdogan cover to demand an election rerun. On

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