Turkish society deeply divided after 20 years of Erdogan’s rule

Source:France24 Date:12Jan2023

Although some voters benefited from the Erdogan years, others, like Erdem, lost out. The former journalist was sent to jail for publishing “state secrets” in a 2015 article. Today he is an opposition mayor of a district of Istanbul. His party, the CHP, the secular outfit founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, won the municipal elections in all the country’s biggest cities in 2019. By forming a coalition with five other opposition parties, it hopes to put an end to the Erdogan era in the elections scheduled for June 2023.