On these grounds, the CHP mayors of Ataşehir and Beşiktaş, both districts of Istanbul, were removed from office on 8 December 2017 and 4 January 2018, respectively. The result wrests control over Turkey’s largest city from Mr. Erdogan and ends his party’s 25-year dominance there. Board head says some votes are being recounted as candidates of both ruling AK Party and opposition CHP claim victory. [23], In addition to removal on the grounds of national security, a number of mayors have been removed from office on corruption charges. A number of these defections were down to the formation of the İyi Party, which took away substantial support from the Nationalist Movement Party. The members of the Nation Alliance were initially beset with issues concerning candidate selection and inner-party divisions, stemming from their general election loss in June 2018. A total of 10 municipal mayors switched to İYİ between the party's establishment on 25 October 2017 and 2019. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a fresh mandate with sweeping new powers in a double victory in parliamentary and presidential elections last … [19] The elected positions are shown below. ", http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/secim/31-mart-2019-yerel-secimleri/secim-sonuclari, "Erdogan, Turkey's Leader, Staring at Major Electoral Defeat", "Turkey elections: Mansur Yavas leads polls in Ankara mayoral race", "Erdogan shows NZ attack video at rallies", "Gaziantep'te muhtarlık kavgası: 3 ölü, 1 yaralı", "Malatya'da seçim kavgası: 2 ölü, 1 yaralı", https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-turkey-election/erdogan-on-track-to-lose-turkeys-biggest-cities-in-shock-poll-upset-idUKKCN1RD139, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/31/turkey-votes-local-elections-seen-key-test-of-erdogan-rule, "Turkish Election Board Rejects Recount All Istanbul Districts", "Turkey's electoral board says votes in eight Istanbul districts to be recounted", "CHP's Imamoglu vows to end 'system of extravagance' in Istanbul", "İstanbul seçim sonuçları belli oldu! [34], On 18 September 2018, the AKP Mayor of Ordu Enver Yılmaz announced his resignation. P resident Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the strongman of Turkish politics and a former mayor of Istanbul, has lost Istanbul. When Turkey’s opposition won some of the biggest municipalities in local elections on March 31, many analysts proclaimed the triumph of Turkish democracy.. When Turkey’s opposition won some of the biggest municipalities in local elections on March 31, many analysts proclaimed the triumph of Turkish democracy.. The dates of local elections are enshrined in the Constitution of Turkey, meaning that any motion to hold them on a different date would require a constitutional amendment. Turkey holds local elections every five years in the final Sunday of March. In Istanbul, the result was too close to call on Monday. .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party is contesting the slim opposition victory in the country's biggest city, Istanbul. [50] The 2014 election marked the first time a ballot official was sentenced to prison for electoral fraud, having been caught transferring opposition votes to the ruling AKP candidate. It was a re-run of the March 2019 mayoral election, which was annulled by the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) on 6 May 2019. On 23 June, elections were repeated in the Istanbul metropolitan municipality. Elections were annulled in 6 districts and 1 metropolitan municipality (namely Istanbul). … 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 following sections give list of key results. Citing unofficial results, president gives victory speech and says AK Party-led alliance has won parliamentary vote. With 97.7% of the votes counted, Sadi Guven, chief of Turkey’s Supreme Election Board, said Erdogan had won an absolute majority, avoiding a runoff against his principal challenger, Muharrem … [22] As of 14 October 2018, four AKP mayors, one MHP mayor and 94 DBP mayors have been removed from office. The voting was marred by scattered election violence in which at least four people were killed and dozens injured across Turkey. Turkish flags flutter nest to a huge portrait of Turkey's President and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he gives a speech during an AKP pre-election … Turkey's ruling AK Party has lost control of Istanbul after a re-run of the city's mayoral election, delivering a stinging blow to President Erdogan. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party might call … Erdogan and AKP break its silence on Uyghurs, who share cultural and linguistic similarities with other Turkic ethnic groups but suffered long-time mistreatment by China as facing pressure from the ruling coalition Nationalist Movement Party and opposition parties such as İyi Party, Felicity Party, Great Union Party. [41] The 'temporary suspension' of the alliance was subsequently confirmed by Erdoğan. The opposition pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said the elections were unfair and refused to put forward candidates in several cities. The results, reported by the state-run Anadolu news agency, show: The AKP had been saying its Istanbul candidate, former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, was ahead by 4,000 votes. With the establishment of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012, the existing dominant pro-Kurdish party, the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) restructured itself into a purely local election-based organisation and renamed itself to Democratic Regions Party (DBP). Results obtained by the İyi Parti by province. Turkey’s Supreme Election Council, YSK, lifted the ban on poll news and the first results are streaming in. With most media either pro-government or controlled by Mr Erdogan's supporters, critics believe opposition parties campaigned at a disadvantage. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP on Tuesday appealed against results in Istanbul and Ankara following a weekend election after tallies showed the ruling party lost both key cities. More than 57 million people in the country were registered to vote for mayors and councillors. “Turkey has been moving away from European values at great speed in recent years. What’s the real story? By Kaya Gen ç. April 2, 2019. The AKP has won every election since coming to power in 2002. Beyond the geopolitics, there is another reason the US elections are being closely watched in Turkey, says Yunus Emre Erdolen, a local Turkish journalist who has been closely monitoring the US elections and was one of the first journalists to pick up the Biden interview with the NYT in January 2020. [10][11] İmamoğlu was sworn in as mayor, though a new election was held on 23 June. Turkey's Consul General in Jerusalem urges international community to respect election results News Service 09:08 January 16, 2021 AA Turkey's Consul … 2018", "Kahraman: Erken yerel seçim Anayasa'ya uygun değil", "Türkiye'de kaç tane ilçe, kaç tane belediye, kaç tane köy vardır? Turkey's long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a new five-year term after securing outright victory in the first round of a presidential poll. Mr. Mr. The AKP is also contesting the CHP victory in Ankara. “The US elections have geopolitical ramifications not only for Turkey but the whole world,” said the retired Admiral Cem Gurdeniz speaking to TRT World. A total of 30 metropolitan and 1,351 district municipal mayors, alongside 1,251 provincial and 20,500 municipal councillors were elected, in addition to numerous local non-partisan positions such as neighbourhood wardens (muhtars) and elderly people's councils. Mayors and councillors are elected separately. ", "Ataşehir Belediye Başkanı Battal İlgezdi görevden uzaklaştırıldı", "Son dakika: Beşiktaş Belediye Başkanı görevden alındı", "Kadir Topbaş istifa etti.. Ak Parti'nin yeni başkan adayı o mu olacak? His AK Party lost its majority in the Grand National Assembly but retains its majority with support from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), together with which the AKP forms an electoral alliance named the People's Alliance. While the DBP won 100 mayors in 2014, the HDP failed to win any municipalities and won just 9 municipal councillors. Save this story for later. The government subsequently dropped plans to bring the poll forward. If the alliance agreement has not extended to that provincial capital and both parties of the alliance are contesting, then 'both' is shown in that alliance's column. Originally due on 3 November 2019, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on 18 April 2018 that the vote was being brought forward. Mr Erdogan, whose two-month campaign included 100 rallies, said the poll was about the "survival" of Turkey and his party. [26], On 30 May 2017, shortly after a controversial declaration of victory in the 2017 constitutional referendum and election as AK Party leader, President Erdoğan made a statement claiming that his party was suffering from 'metal fatigue' and called on poorly-performing party provincial executives to leave their posts. List of elections. Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s financial minister and Erdoğan’s son in law, has promised financial reforms would be unveiled shortly after the local elections. Live results from parliamentary and presidential elections, with incumbent declaring victory in first round . District municipalities consist of two types; actual district municipalities (of which there are 921) and 397 town municipalities that serve even smaller settlements in rural provinces. [60][61][62][63][64], During some rallies President Erdoğan repeatedly showed video taken by the Christchurch mosque shooter to his supporters at campaign rallies for upcoming[update] elections and said Australians and New Zealanders who came to Turkey with anti-Muslim sentiments "would be sent back in coffins like their grandfathers were" during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. Due to the first-past-the-post system used to elect mayors, the elections were preceded by several inter-party negotiations and calculations of tactical voting to improve the chances of defeating the candidates of certain parties. The table below shows which party within the two alliances are contesting each provincial capital district. What’s the real story? News Turkey elections: Opposition claims victory in Ankara, pulls ahead in Istanbul. The alliance was finalised on 12 December, with the İyi Party agreeing to not field mayoral candidates in Aydın, Muğla, Tekirdağ, Hatay, İzmir, Eskişehir, Ankara, Istanbul, Antalya, Bursa or Adana. Parts of the largely government-controlled media are reporting allegations that stolen ballots hindered the party's performance. The parties are Communist Party of Kurdistan, the Freedom Movement, the Revolutionary Eastern Culture Associations, the Human and Freedom Party, the Kurdish Democratic Platform and the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Turkey. [44], On 18 December 2018, the CHP and İyi Party's joint candidate in Ankara was announced to be Mansur Yavaş, who narrowly lost to the AKP's candidate Melih Gökçek in the 2014 local election amid allegations of fraud. [54] The move, which the mayor claimed to be an attempt by the government to engineer the result in Adalar to result in his defeat, was branded 'the biggest fake voter scandal in the history of the Republic'. Upon announcing his candidacy, Yavaş declared himself to be the 'Nation Alliance' candidate.[45]. [59], In February 2019, after many democratic countries raised concerns about China's cultural genocide against Muslims for years, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemns the systematic assimilation, arbitrary arrests, cruel torture, political brainwashing in internment camps and prisons of more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim communities by China and called on to end the human tragedy. Turnout was high at just under 85%. It follows his dramatic return to Russia, five months after a nerve agent attack almost killed him. Presidential elections were held to elect the President of Turkey using a two-round system. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) did not openly announce support for either alliance, but did not field candidates in some areas to improve chances of opposition candidates. Following the publication of voter lists, many opposition politicians alleged that voters had been deliberately switched from one district to a neighbouring district as a means of tipping the result to favour a certain candidate. [36] On 9 May 2017, Mayor Mustafa Gül of Kemer, in Antalya, resigned from MHP and joined CHP. [67][68] In other districts violence between AKP party and opposition broke out[69] during the day of the elections and in the following week.[70]. Turkey election: Erdogan disputes results in major cities. Bu yıl Yerel Seçim ne zaman? Citing unofficial results, president gives victory speech and says AK Party-led alliance has won parliamentary vote. Why Erdogan's big Turkish ambitions could come tumbling down, Reality Check: The numbers behind the crackdown in Turkey, Putin critic Alexei Navalny to be kept in custody. What’s the real story? In response, the government alleged that the opposition parties were acting in the interests of 'foreign powers and terrorists'. In the past, Turkish opposition parties have failed to mount a successful challenge to election results. "İYİ Party, which has been encountering many difficulties and tricks, is going through another hoop today. In addition to these partisan positions, numerous local non-partisan positions such as neighborhood presidents (muhtars) and elderly people's councils were elected. [79], 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, known by the Turkish Government and its supporters as the Fethullah Gülen Terrorist Organisation, Opinion polling for the 2019 Turkish local elections, "CHP'nin Ankara Büyükşehir Belediye Başkan adayı Mansur Yavaş kimdir? Numerous recounts, electoral complaints, legal disputes, alleged corruption, accusations of terrorist involvement and police operations took place after the election, initiated mainly by the AKP. Likewise, the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the İYİ Party entered some of the races under the Nation Alliance banner. [27], On 23 September 2017, Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş, in office since 2004, resigned. Erdogan wins Turkey’s presidential election. Damadı ile ilgili o detay…", "Son dakika... AK Partili Niğde Belediye Başkanı görevinden istifa etti", "Bursa Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Recep Altepe istifa etti", "Ordu Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı istifa etti", "Balıkesir Belediye Başkanı İstifa Etti: Tehdide Varan Müdahaleler Var – bianet", "Balıkesir Belediye Başkanı Edip Uğur görevinden istifa etti", "Mersin Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Kocamaz, İYİ Parti'ye geçtiğini duyurdu (2)", "İnhisar Bağımsız Belediye Başkanı CHP'ye Geçti", "CHP'li belediye başkanı AKP'ye geçti: Özüme döndüm", "CHP'li belediye başkanı AK Parti'ye geçti", "MHP Genel Başkanı Devlet Bahçeli'den flaş Cumhur ittifakı açıklaması! Election officials decided to cancel the results of the first vote in March after Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) alleged that there had been cases of vote rigging and corruption. [51], The preliminary electoral roll was published in January 2018 to allow voters to check their polling districts and make any changes during a 'complaint period'. 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