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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 01, 2019, 04:46:38 pm
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Turkey local elections: Setback for Erdogan in big cities
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 main opposition is also slightly ahead in the contest for mayor of Istanbul, figures published by the state-run Anadolu news agency suggest.
But the president's AKP party is challenging the result in both cities.
Municipal elections were held across the nation on Sunday and an AKP-led alliance won more than 51% of the vote.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47764393 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47764393)
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