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On this week's episode, Murat Somer - Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul's Ozyegin University - and MEI Turkey Program Director Gonul Tol join MEI Editor-in-Chief Alistair Taylor to discuss the main opposition party's surprising victory in Turkey's March 31 local elections. In what some are calling a "red wave," the Republican People's Party (or CHP) notched up victories in both major cities and smaller towns and villages, winning control of Turkey's 5 largest metropolitan areas and 35 of its 81 provincial municipalities.
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On this week's episode, Murat Somer - Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul's Ozyegin University - and MEI Turkey Program Director Gonul Tol join MEI Editor-in-Chief Alistair Taylor to discuss the main opposition party's surprising victory in Turkey's March 31 local elections. In what some are calling a "red wave," the Republican People's Party (or CHP) notched up victories in both major cities and smaller towns and villages, winning control of Turkey's 5 largest metropolitan areas and 35 of its 81 provincial municipalities.

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