{"id":7492,"date":"2024-06-21T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/the-opposition-convincingly-wins-local-elections-in-turkey-erdogan-accepts-defeat\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T10:00:22","slug":"the-opposition-convincingly-wins-local-elections-in-turkey-erdogan-accepts-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/the-opposition-convincingly-wins-local-elections-in-turkey-erdogan-accepts-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"The opposition convincingly wins local elections in Turkey, Erdogan accepts defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnimpuls.com\/tiranapost.al\/media3\/-640-0-660a582747c11.png\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"The opposition convincingly wins local elections in Turkey, Erdogan accepts\" style=\"display:block\" data-size=\"x\" data-id=\"224993\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The opposition convincingly wins the local elections in Turkey. The candidates of the opposition CHP party in Ankara and Istanbul claimed victory by a wide margin from their opponents in the first round.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The current mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the city for the first time in 2019, after 99.98% of the votes counted, won with 51.09% of the votes over his rival, the former Minister of Environment, Murat Kurum. who received 39.59%.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Erdogan has accepted the defeat, saying that it is not the end, but a turning point.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Meanwhile, in Ankara the result is even deeper. After 99.93% of the votes were counted, the current opposition&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tiranapost.al\/english\/lajme-nga-bota\/opozita-fiton-bindshem-zgjedhjet-lokale-ne-turqi-erdogan-pranon-h-i531586\">lidhje burimi <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition convincingly wins the local elections in Turkey. The candidates of the opposition CHP party in Ankara and Istanbul claimed victory by a wide margin from their opponents in the first round. The current mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the city for the first time in 2019, after 99.98% of the votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,317],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-turkiye","7":"category-turkiye-sq"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}