A woman casts her ballot in local elections at a polling station in Istanbul, the main battleground for the 70-year-old Turkish president. Photograph: Emrah Gurel/APmain opposition party appeared set to retain its control over key cities in Sunday’s local elections, preliminary results showed.
Wolfgang Benz: ‘Methods familiar from Germany’s history are being used to cast suspicion on another minority - Muslims’‘We’ll piece it together properly’: Ukraine’s Izium rebuilds slowly after brutal occupation The vote was seen as barometer of Erdogan’s popularity as he sought to win back control of key urban areas he lost to the opposition in elections five years ago.The main battleground for the 70-year-old Turkish president was Istanbul, a city of 16 million people where he was born and raised and where he began his political career as mayor in 1994.
Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and his wife Dilek at a polling station during the election. Photograph: Huseyin Yavuz/Dia Images via AP
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