ANKARA: Electoral officials ordered a second recount of votes in an east Istanbul district on Monday (Apr 15), after two weeks of appeals by ...
ANKARA: Electoral officials ordered a second recount of votes in an east Istanbul district on Monday , after two weeks of appeals by President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party against results showing it had narrowly lost control of Turkey's largest city.
The loss of Ankara ended 25 years of control over the capital by the AK Party and its Islamist predecessors. Defeat in Istanbul, where Erdogan was mayor in the 1990s, would be an even greater blow to the president who has dominated Turkish politics through a decade and half of repeated election triumphs.
The High Election Board has said it would wait for all recounts across the city to be completed before ruling on the AKP's appeal to annul results in Buyukcekmece. "The AKP-MHP was planning to get different results by having the ballot boxes in Maltepe recounted. When the results did not come out as they wished, they are now not signing the record sheets of the judges so the count can't be finished," Yarkdas said on Twitter.
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