Turkey: Resurgent Opposition Thumps Erdoğan In Pivotal Local Elections

(EurActiv) — Turks dealt President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party their biggest electoral blow on Sunday (31 March) in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu as the president’s chief rival.

With most of the votes counted, Imamoğlu...