As Goes Istanbul, So Goes Turkey?
5 min readJun 25, 2019
Why the stunning upset victory of Ekrem Imamoglu in the Istanbul Mayoral race may spell disaster for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A Stinging Upset
As is becoming increasingly clear in political races all around the world, polls in 2019 are about as reliable as four-year weather forecasts.