Turkey Local Elections

Turkey Local Elections
Turkey's top election body justifies Istanbul revote

Turkey's top election body justifies Istanbul revote

Turkey

Invalid counting sheets, not deploying civil servants at polling centres are the ​main reasons cited for a revote of March polls.

Turkey's election board rejects Istanbul revote application

Turkey's election board rejects Istanbul revote application

Turkey

Turkish opposition CHP and IYI Party last week had filed an appeal to cancel poll results in all Istanbul districts.

Nine questions about the Istanbul mayoral election rerun

Nine questions about the Istanbul mayoral election rerun

Turkey

The Supreme Election Council of Turkey decided by a majority to rerun elections for the Istanbul Municipality. Over ten million citizens are eligible to vote in less than six weeks.

Istanbul’s Race for Mayor

Istanbul’s Race for Mayor

Senior officials from Turkey's ruling AK Party and the opposition CHP join the programme to debate the ruling to rerun Istanbul’s mayoral election. We debate whether the new vote is needed, and who will win.

Istanbul’s Election Redo

Istanbul’s Election Redo

Turkey's election commission ruled that Istanbul must redo a vote for mayor, after the ruling AK Party alleged election fraud. We look at why some say it was needed, while others argue it hurts the country’s democracy. #IstanbulElection #Turkey

Here’s why Istanbul is heading to the polls again

Here’s why Istanbul is heading to the polls again

People in Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul, will vote for a second time on June 23 to choose their mayor after the Supreme Election Board (YSK) ordered a rerun of the polls. Here is why. #Istanbul #IstanbulElection #Turkey

Istanbul residents change holiday plans to vote in election rerun

Istanbul residents change holiday plans to vote in election rerun

Turkey

Airlines and travel agencies are allowing people to reschedule flights planned around that weekend for free and municipalities in some holiday resorts have even put out spoof warnings to discourage Istanbul residents from visiting on that weekend.

Turkey's opposition CHP seeks cancellation of 2018 presidential elections

Turkey's opposition CHP seeks cancellation of 2018 presidential elections

Turkey

Main opposition Republican People's Party also wants a rerun in all Istanbul district councils. It argues the same flaws which the governing AK Party said occurred during the Istanbul mayoral election apply to the 2018 presidential election.

Turkey's election council orders rerun of Istanbul mayoral election

Turkey's election council orders rerun of Istanbul mayoral election

Turkey's Supreme Election Council (YSK) has called for a rerun of the mayoral election in Istanbul after AK Party and MHP objected to the initial results. #Istanbul #election #rerun

Erdogan backs rerun of Istanbul vote as opposition meets to talk strategy

Erdogan backs rerun of Istanbul vote as opposition meets to talk strategy

Turkey

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he believes lawlessness and irregularities occurred in Istanbul mayoral elections. Opposition Republican People's Party says the decision to renew the vote is "neither democratic nor legitimate."

Lira weakens as Turkey's electoral council orders rerun of Istanbul poll

Lira weakens as Turkey's electoral council orders rerun of Istanbul poll

Turkey

The Turkish lira fell past 6.1 against the US dollar after the Supreme Election Council orders a rerun of Istanbul mayoral election for June 23.

Turkey's election body rules for Istanbul election rerun

Turkey's election body rules for Istanbul election rerun

Turkey

Rerun election to be held on June 23, says Supreme Election Council.

CHP's Ekrem Imamoglu becomes new Istanbul mayor

CHP's Ekrem Imamoglu becomes new Istanbul mayor

Turkey

Turkey's Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) will continue to examine appeals from the governing Justice and Development Party on election irregularities after awarding the certificate of mayorship to Imamoglu, the Republican People's Party candidate.

How the AK Party made inroads in HDP strongholds in eastern Turkey

How the AK Party made inroads in HDP strongholds in eastern Turkey

Magazine

A low-key AK Party candidate won the recent local election in Cukurca, a border district in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish-populated region.

Turkey's mayoral polls still in legal process - election authority chief

Turkey's mayoral polls still in legal process - election authority chief

Turkey

Speaking to reporters, Sadi Guven, head of the Supreme Election Council (YSK), said that since the judicial process is continuing, he will not release any information on petitions, demands, and objections being currently considered.

Mansur Yavas is new Ankara mayor

Mansur Yavas is new Ankara mayor

Turkey

Opposition CHP's Yavas receives his certificate of election from Turkey's Supreme Election Council.

Turkey's AK Party seeks full recount of votes in Istanbul

Turkey's AK Party seeks full recount of votes in Istanbul

Turkey

AK Party will appeal to the country's Supreme Election Council for a full recount of votes in all 38 districts of Istanbul.

Turkey's first communist municipal mayor

Turkey's first communist municipal mayor

Meet Turkey's first-ever communist municipal mayor, Fatih Mehmet Macoglu. #Turkey #elections

What is the procedure for recounting votes in Istanbul?

What is the procedure for recounting votes in Istanbul?

Turkey

As Turkey's Supreme Election Council reviews the votes cast for Istanbul’s local elections on March 31, here is the whole process explained.

Turkey elected its first mayor with disability

Turkey elected its first mayor with disability

Turan Hancerli lost both his arms three days before he started studying law in 1993, but it didn't prevent him from achieving his goals. The 44-year-old lawyer and father of two has become the first mayor with a disability in the 2019 local elections.

Communist mayor elected in Turkey's Tunceli city

Communist mayor elected in Turkey's Tunceli city

Turkey

Fatih Mehmet Macoglu won the mayorship for Tunceli province becoming the first communist mayor of a province in Turkey, as citizens voted in nation-wide local elections to elect their mayors and municipal council members for the next five years.

AK Party calls on opposition to avoid 'harmful', 'manipulative actions'

AK Party calls on opposition to avoid 'harmful', 'manipulative actions'

Turkey

"Dictatorships with no democratic track record or less than 10 percent voter turnout have no right to criticise Turkey's elections," Omer Celik, spokesperson for the governing Justice and Development (AK) Party, told reporters.

Turkey's elections beyond the local context

Turkey's elections beyond the local context

Opinion

What do the local election results in Turkey mean for the parties involved?

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