A political gamble by Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan backfired spectacularly on Sunday as the opposition won a resounding victory in the repeat of an Istanbul mayoral election according to early results.
Ekrem Imamoglu, the opposition challenger in a race for control of Turkey’s biggest and most important city, had won the contest in a previous vote but was stripped of his narrow victory after claims of fraud by Mr Erdogan’s ruling party. On Sunday, preliminary results showed that the 49-year-old former district major not only won the rerun of the vote but massively increased his majority.
“This amounts to everyone together opening a new page for Istanbul,” Mr Imamoglu said after the result became clear.
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