AKP smeared Imamoglu with a variety of ad-hominems: terrorist
ok…
coup-supporter,
fine…
fraud,
whatever…
Greek
Now, that’s way out of line!
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In Turkey, sadly, it is about as insulting as can be.
Maybe it’s because they still haven’t got over Troy! 
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I think (maybe more like hope) that nowadays the loyalty of Turkey’s military is to the Turkish people rather than to Erdogan or whoever the strongman of the moment happens to be.
Here’s hoping!
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Look up Cyprus some day.
Also: “Turkish” is never used in a positive connotation in Armenia.
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Don’t forget about what the Kurds think of Turkey.
Syrians also don’t particularly like Turkey for what they did in Hatay, among other things.
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Yeah. Turkey is not beloved by all it’s neighbours.
Basically, saying Imamoglu is Greek is the Turkish version of calling Obama Muslim.
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The same applies in Greece going the other way. In fairness to the Greeks, they were colonized by the Ottomans for about 400 years or so. They carry the grudge. I wouldn’t dare call one of my Greek relatives a Turk, no matter how lighthearted a jest.
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My understanding is sort of both (rural and urban), in the sense that Erdogan was able to get the vote of recently (at time) internal immigrants from rural areas to Istanbul.
I guess he was able to portrait himself towards the rural people as “one of us” that was successful in the big city, so losing Istanbul would tarnish his image all through the country, especially with the backslash of invalidating the elections to lose with even bigger margin
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In Greek/Armenian circles, mentioning that place often follows with ritual expectoration.
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