Istanbul mayoral re-run: Turkey's ruling AKP loses again

Istanbul mayoral re-run: Turkey’s ruling AKP loses again

Turkey’s ruling party has lost control of Istanbul after a re-run of the city’s mayoral election, latest results show. The candidate for the main opposition party, Ekrem Imamoglu, won 54% of the vote with nearly all ballots counted. He won a surprise victory in March which was annulled after the ruling AK party complained of irregularities.

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All about Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul

All about Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul

Ekrem İmamoğlu (born June 4, 1970) is a Turkish politician who served as Mayor of Istanbul from April 17, 2019 until May 6, 2019. He was elected in the 2019 Istanbul mayoral election as the joint Nation Alliance candidate of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the İYİ Party. He was formerly the Mayor of Beylikdüzü, a western district of Istanbul, between 2014 and 2019.

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