Election Turkey 2019 Istanbul

Turkey s ruling ak party has lost control of istanbul after a re run of the city s mayoral election delivering a stinging blow to president erdogan.

Election turkey 2019 istanbul. Istanbul president recep tayyip erdogan of turkey suffered the biggest defeat of his political career on sunday as his candidate for istanbul mayor conceded defeat in a repeat election. Turkish local elections 2019. The turkish local elections of 2019 were held on sunday 31 march 2019 throughout the 81 provinces of turkey a total of 30 metropolitan and 1 351 district municipal mayors alongside 1 251 provincial and 20 500 municipal councillors were elected in addition to numerous local non partisan positions such as neighbourhood wardens and elderly people s councils.

Turkish local elections 2019 image copyright epa image caption thank you istanbul. This was a do over of a previous election held in march. The eu and leading member states have sharply criticised a decision in turkey to re run istanbul s mayoral election after a shock opposition win.

Istanbul election set to be won by turkish opposition party according to unofficial results that would deal a blow to turkish president recep tayyip erdogan. Mon 6 may 2019 16 37 edt first published on mon 6 may 2019 14 05 edt. Outcry as turkey orders rerun of istanbul mayoral election.

On sunday voters in istanbul turkey s largest city picked their next mayor ekrem i̇mamoğlu. For the second time this year. A victory poster shows mr erdogan r and mayoral candidate binali yildirim.

The june 2019 istanbul mayoral election was held on 23 june 2019. Turkey s opposition wins high stakes re run of the istanbul mayoral election striking a blow to turkish president recep tayyip erdoğan 0 50 published.