Anger has erupted on the streets of Istanbul, with thousands of people rallying in the cold in front of the city hall on Wednesday evening, yelling: “Erdogan, dictator!” and “Imamoglu, you are not alone!”, after the city’s mayor and Erdogan’s main political rival was detained. Şebnem Gümüşçü, Ass. Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and Sabancı University, says that Erdogan could use the detention as leverage ‘to negotiate opposition support for a third or fourth term’.
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