The New York Times - JAN. 9, 2014
ISTANBUL
— Engin Bayrak owns a hardware store near the shores of the Golden Horn
waterway, where ferries connect the European and Asian sides of this
vast city. He has witnessed for himself the vast improvements in
services over the last decade as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and
his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party reshaped this city in
their image.
“Clean water, reliable electricity — things we take for granted now — we didn’t have this before,” Mr. Bayrak said.
Even so, he says, now that a corruption scandal has exposed the dark side of the city’s steady growth, he will no longer support Mr. Erdogan or his party, known by the initials of its name in Turkish, A.K.P., in coming elections.
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