Istanbul top prize as Turkey votes in local polls

Turks were voting on Sunday in municipal elections, with all eyes on Istanbul, the national "jewel" that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to pry away from the opposition.

“Everyone is worried about the day to day,” said Guler Kaya, admitting she had had to stop going out. His road to power in Turkey began in Istanbul when he was elected mayor of the mythic city straddling Europe and Asia in 1994. “Whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey,” Erman Bakirci, a pollster from Konda Research and Consultancy, recalled Erdogan once saying.

If Imamoglu manages to retain the Istanbul mayor’s seat, he’ll likely be the main challenger to the ruling party in the next presidential elections, set for 2028. This time around the main opposition party, the social democrat CHP, has failed to rally support behind a single candidate. Donald Trump and fellow Republicans assailed President Joe Biden on Saturday for what they called an assault on Christianity, after the US leader highlighted the Transgender Day of Visibility that this year coincides with Easter.

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