The AKP’s extraordinary efforts to retain the seat showed the outsize importance of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city and its financial capital.
By Kareem Fahim Kareem Fahim Istanbul bureau chief covering the Middle East Email Bio Follow April 9 at 11:24 AM ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party on Tuesday called for new elections in Istanbul, after unofficial results from the March 31 vote showed the party had lost the critical mayoral seat to an opposition challenger.
The party’s extraordinary efforts to retain the mayor’s seat immediately drew accusations from critics that it was attempting to subvert the democratic processes. It also underscores the outsize importance Erdogan and his political allies have placed on Istanbul’s largest city and its financial capital.
Erdogan had treated the contest — for mayors and local council seats — as a matter of national urgency and campaigned for his party’s candidates across Turkey.
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