Turkey Opposition Says Erdogan Withholding Billions From Cities

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is withholding billions of dollars of municipal funds that are crucial for investment in cities such as Istanbul and Ankara, according to the head of the main opposition party.

The country’s longest-serving leader needs to release more than $1.8 billion in approved financing that has been withheld by government or a state-run bank for two years, said Ozgur Ozel, who heads the secular Republican People’s Party, or CHP.