Turkey's top election authority voided the election victory of an opposition candidate and ordered a re-run of the mayoral election in Istanbul.
Supporters, watching TV, stand before signs showing Ekrem Imamoglu, whose election as Istanbul mayor has been voided by Turkish authorities. Turkey's top election authority voided the election victory of an opposition candidate and ordered a re-run of the mayoral election in Istanbul, ruling Monday in favor of the challenge made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party to the legitimacy of the vote it narrowly lost.
Erdogan's conservative and Islamic-based Justice and Development Party, or AKP, alleged election irregularities made the results invalid. It pushed for an annulment of the vote after 17 days of appeals and repeated recounts failed to produce a different outcome.
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