LETTER: Istanbul makes a stand
Guns and intimidation no match for the will of the people
25 June 2019 - 05:00
In his classic work Istanbul: Memories of a City, 2006 Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk writes: “In Turkish we have a special tense that allows us to distinguish hearsay from what we have seen with our own eyes.”
The defeat of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party in the electoral battle for Istanbul seems like hearsay. Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the people of Istanbul have restored my faith in democracy, proving that guns and intimidation are no match for the will of the people...
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