Turkey Election News 2019

Turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan is facing a major political setback after his party lost control of the capital ankara in a keenly fought local elections battle.

Turkey election news 2019. Track breaking turkey elections 2019 headlines analysis on hürriyet daily news. Daily news briefing direct. Turkey s top election body ordered a re run of istanbul s mayoral election on monday after the party of president recep tayyip erdogan complained about its shock defeat in the vote the state news.

And in the 2017 referendum on changing turkey s political system to favour president erdogan the state run election board ruled during counting that unstamped ballot papers would be accepted. 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. The party of turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan has lost control of the capital ankara in local elections in a setback after 16 years in power the opp.

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The party of turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan has lost control of the capital ankara in local elections in a blow to his 16 year rule. The european parliament also said the decision to re run the election would end the credibility of democratic elections in turkey.