Turkey votes to choose its mayors, a test for Erdogan. In Istanbul, the former Constantinople described as a "jewel" and a "national treasure" The opposition this time leaves in dispersed order: the CHP (social democrat), its main party, did not manage to obtain the support of other parties.
The pro-Kurdish Dem party, in particular, is going it alone at the risk of favoring the ruling party, itself threatened in places by the rise of the Islamist Yeniden Refah party.