By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Turkey, a seriously unitary state, goes to the polls for local elections this Sunday March 31. The country has been governed from Ankara for about a century and by a single man since 2017 when the Turks said “Yes” in a constitutional referendum that did away with the parliamentary republic and invested any power worth having in the “executive president”. Local municipalities in Turkey collect garbage, operate water utilities and attend to other commonplace stuff. They are important in that they distribute the building permits (i.e. they decide who will make the money …