IZMIR, Turkey — Stabbing the air with his finger, Muharrem Ince strides along the roof of his campaign bus and tells a provincial crowd that the fortune President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent on his new palace in Ankara could have built 100,000 houses.
“And now he’s building a summer palace of 300 rooms in Marmaris,” Ince adds, provoking a loud boo from the crowd in Kemalpasa, western Turkey.