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The fluorescent lights inside the Istanbul courthouse hummed faintly as lawyers carried thick binders across the polished floor. A clerk began reading the indictment slowly, page by page, from a document that ran well past three thousand pages. At the defense table sat Ekrem İmamoğlu, the former mayor of Istanbul and one of the few politicians widely believed capable of defeating Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a competitive national election.
Outside the building, the cameras were pointed somewhere else.
American and Israeli aircraft were striking Iranian targets. Oil markets were surging. Diplomats were scrambling to prevent the conflict from widening across the Middle East. For the moment, the global news cycle had shifted hundreds of miles south toward the Persian Gulf.
Inside the courtroom, another political contest was unfolding in relative quiet.
The two events were not unrelated.