Turkey's main opposition party claimed a decisive victory yesterday in Istanbul's election, dealing one of the biggest blows to President Tayyip Erdogan during his 16 years in power, the NBC News website reports today (June 24, 2019).
Ekrem Imamoglu, mayoral candidate of the secularist Republican People's Party, was leading with 54 percent of votes against 45 percent for Erdogan's AK Party candidate, with 99 percent of ballots counted.
The election was seen as a test of Turks' ability to check what many saw as their president's increasingly authoritarian power.
"Today, 16 million Istanbul residents have renewed our faith in democracy and refreshed our trust in justice," Imamoglu told supporters.
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