Pourquoi la Turquie n’a pas eu les JO 2020 - Al-Monitor
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Une défaite pour Erdogan : le CIO a préféré Tokyo - en dépit de la crise et aux risques liés à Fukushima - à la Turquie qui devait selon des commentateurs remporter l’organisation des JO de 2020. Risques écologiques vs. instabilité politique : la gestion du pouvoir par Erdogan, Gezy, les frontières avec la Syrie auraient dissuadé le CIO.
Apart from probable new tensions and polemics, Istanbul’s loss of the 2020 Olympics is likely to be more of a political loss for Erdogan. Before the Taksim-Gezi events, there was already talk of a downward trend of Turkey’s uncontested prime minister who had acquired a larger-than-life status. Erdogan was trying to assure his future status by the mega projects he was promoting led by Istanbul 2020 Olympics. That is why Istanbul’s defeat by Tokyo and suggestions that his harsh attitudes and autocratic tendencies had a part in that loss could well be an omen of darkening clouds over Erdogan.