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From Our Own Correspondent: Istanbul's mayoral election upset

29/06/2019

Istanbul's mayoral election upset

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Istanbul's mayoral election upset

What does losing control of Istanbul mean for Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

What are the consequences for Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after his party lost control of Istanbul to the opposition in the mayoral election?

After his party lost the Istanbul mayoral election where does Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, go from here? Mark Lowen considers whether this could be the start of his political decline.  Katie Arnold reports from Kyrgyzstan where hot dry summers in the former Soviet republic  are leading to drought and cross- border tension over water supplies.  Alastair Leithead, the BBC's Africa correspondent, is leaving the continent 17 years after he filed his first piece for From Our Own Correspondent. How much has his role changed since then? In the United States where fourteen parents have pleaded guilty to fraudulently getting their children into top universities, Laura Trevelyan considers the lengths some  parents will go to help their off-spring get into their preferred college.  And as much of Europe swelters under a heat wave James Reynolds takes the temperature in Rome and finds out what hot weather means to its citizens.


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