constituted a base on which the opposition -CHP and pro-Kurdish DEM - has been able to build credibility in terms of alternative practice to the ruling bloc, but has also enabled it to get its hands on (limited) public resources ++
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For the gouvernment, this reform would be a golden opportunity to recover de facto, in the form of a system of trusteeship, the lost metropolitan municipalities, notably Istanbul and Ankara, which are real levers of clientelist redistribution ++
The current sequence is a good illustration of the government's dual approach: repression/reform. In addition to recentralisation reforms, there are now daily episodes of repression against large sections of the opposition, as demonstrated by the operation against the mayor of Istanbul Imamoglu.
It's probably worth reminding that microgovernance, from mühtar level to büyük belediye, is the most direct perception of the state by common people. That's now a key opposition strategy but it also was the foundation of AKP rise. If the state takes over, it's directly to blame for bad governance.
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