THE GROUND UNDER OUR FEET.

MAYORAL elections; LOCAL elections; GEZI Park Protests, Turkey, 2013; COVID-19 pandemic; VOTE buying; IRANIAN Revolution, 1979; CURFEWS

The French government also came to the rescue, as did the British, countering the xenophobia promoted by Erdogan's regime simply by being there and bringing sandwiches. Sar, who lost relatives in the quake and was visibly traumatized during our interview after spending days working in the rescue operation in Hatay, predicted that the earthquake would be "a breaking point" for the government and will be remembered in the future "as the event that closed this era and put the last nail in the coffin of Erdogan's regime." Erdogan still seems blind to the nature of his single-party regime, whose corrupt grip on power assigns to the modern-day CHP (Turkey's oldest political party, founded by Atatürk) a role similar to the Democrat Party's in 1950: that of a disrupter of autocracy. Park life: The protests against government plans to pave Gezi Park in 2013 were the first serious stirrings of opposition to Erdogan's regime. [Extracted from the article]

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