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Sentencing of Erdoğan’s Rival Brings Risks of an Unfree Election and Autocratic Overreach to Turkey
Earlier today, a court in Turkey sentenced the sitting mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, to two years and seven months in prison for calling members of the Supreme Election Council “idiots” in 2019 after they vacated his first election to the offic [...]